CHAPTER 48

“What’s wrong with you? You’re particularly impatient today.” Gu Yan frowns slightly.

“It’s nothing… Just a little bored recently.”

“Bored? Why? Are you in a bad mood?”

“…”

“Ahhh! My Wolf is actually ignoring me and is throwing a tantrum at me…”

“I’m not angry!”

“You do!”

“I… Forget it! “I don’t want to continue having such a meaningless argument with Gu Yan, I snort out of a bad mood, turn around to face him, pick up the shower gel on the side, and pour a bunch of it on my body haphazardly.

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“Well, the curator made it a rule, in order to celebrate his birthday, the prisoners in the Absolute Wing Hall are free for the whole day, there will be no cell control time. On that day, you prison guards do not need to work, the entire day is empty.”

“There’s no work, but everyone still has to stay in the Absolute Wing Hall, right?”

“Of course!” Gu Yan’s raised tone seems to mock my naivety.

“So what difference does it make if we want to work or not—”

So that’s the so-called ‘freedom’ day? I can’t hide my disappointment and relax my body that is tensed up out of expectation.

For the sake of this mere “freedom,” the word that completely does not exist in the Absolute Wing Hall, I feel like an idiot submerged in cold water for getting my hopes up even though I clearly know it’s impossible.

“I think… There really is no difference in this hypocritical ‘freedom’ day for you guards and for us, the Kings, but perhaps it only does for the prisoners. Maybe it only makes a difference for the prisoners, but that’s it again. It’s not true. After all, it is indeed freedom, but still imprisoned in the end inside the Absolute Wing Hall without noticing it.”

“However, Freedom Day is still a good thing.” Gu Yan rubs his face against my ears, like a big cat showing its affection, “At least the food will be very good that day, and fireworks will be set in the evening— ahh, let’s get tired of watching it together, Wolf.”

I remain silent and quietly let him hold me.

The day before Freedom Day, the kitchen becomes busy. After the meal, the prisoners in charge of the kitchen are still busy in the kitchen, preparing for tomorrow.

I stand in the far corner and supervise, because this month it is my floor’s prisoners’ turn to be in charge of the kitchen.

“Hmph, I say, that fellow Xue LuoYi is really good at tossing people around, right?” The sudden voice that comes out of nowhere startles me.

I turn my head just in time to meet the sharp golden eyes of the person who sprouted out of the blue, his tall body looking very oppressive as soon as he closes in.

“It’s just for a birthday, and it’s already this… Flamboyant… It’s so annoying! Tomorrow there will probably be only food and fireworks to look forward to.” Gui Shang ruffles his head of sharp, black, and sleek short hair and curls the corners of his mouth in disdain.

“Gui Shang…”

I don’t know what the reason is, but the normally unfriendly Gui Shang, now especially likes to chat with me and makes a point of saying hello to me when nothing else is going on.

“Are you alone? Where’s Yaren?”

I don’t see Yaren, who always tails behind Gui Shang’s ass, so I ask out of habit, but as soon as  the words come out, I immediately receive Gui Shang’s frighteningly fierce gaze.

“Why are you bringing up that guy again? I guess you won’t learn unless I teach you a lesson!” Gui Shang hooks my neck, presses my whole body down, and then presses his fist against my head to turn.

I understand that Gui Shang is playing around, but it is still quite uncomfortable to be treated like this. I don’t know whether to cry or laugh and struggle, but I can’t get rid of Gui Shang’s restraint.

I am so suppressed by Gui Shang for a while, until the two of us make an exaggerated sound of struggling and hear an exaggerated sound of cold breath behind us…

“Gui Shang! How could you do that!?” The one who shouts and rushes forward to separate us is Yaren, who’s just mentioned earlier.

Yaren grabs Gui Shang’s clothes and glares at me with a suspicious face, then glares at Gui Shang.

“Unfair! Why is it that only Little lamb can be treated like this by you? I want it too!” Yaren complains, pulling Gui Shang’s hand to put on his shoulder, but is instead waved away by Gui Shang.

“Look! It’s all because of your crow’s tongue!” Gui Shang glares at me, and I can only answer with a helpless and bitter smile.

“What crow’s mouth? What the hell? Gui Shang, what did you just talk with Little lamb about? I also want to know!”

“You are so annoying! It’s none of your business!”

Yaren stalks, Gui Shang will then shrug him off, and then Yaren will wrap around him again. The two will quarrel, and will also include me from time to time, it’s such a cycle.

Facing this chaos, I can only feel an oncoming headache. I can’t help but look out for an opening to escape, but then I catch a glimpse of a figure that shouldn’t appear here in the kitchen.

That cowering, hunchbacked, sneaky, and cowardly look— seems to be Yi OuMu.

My brows perk up in furrow.

“Fvck you! If you don’t leave, I’ll go, okay?” Gui Shang roars in displeasure then turns around and leaves, and Yaren can’t stop him even if he wants to.

“Gui Shang!”

When my line of sight drifts from Gui Shang’s back walking away and back to the kitchen, Yi OuMu is no longer there.

—Is it my illusion? I absentmindedly scan back my eyes around, only to find Yaren staring at me with a resentmentful expression.

“It’s all you! And here I am still kind enough to bring you your letters…” Yaren keeps complaining all the while taking out two letters from his bosom that have been crushed with some crease marks before stuffing them into my hands.

“Thank you.”

I stare at the pink envelope that still lingers with a certain fragrance, and then I remembered that I haven’t received any letter from Xiao Cheng for many days, turns out it was Yaren who received them for me.

“One was mailed a few days ago when you were sick, and the other one was received by me the day before yesterday but I forgot to give you. Finally I remembered it today, but I didn’t expect good intentions to be repaid…” Yaren’s mouth is beaming high.

It’s useless to blame me for this— I thought to myself.

“Next time you are not allowed to be so close to Gui Shang, or I will really lose my temper on you— even if I treat you as a good friend.” For a moment, Yaren’s eyes are freezingly cold, but he quickly conceals it with a smile while squinting his eyes, as if his threat just now is a joke for me.

—But I understand that Yaren is serious.

Yaren reaches out and pats me on the shoulder, returning to his usual c*cky smile.

“Of course, you have to be careful of your Gu Yan being jealous. You have been very close to him recently, haven’t you?”

“Close?” My eyebrows collide all of a sudden.

“Hey, don’t you deny it as emotionally as last time! Last time I said that you and Gu Yan dearly loved each other was indeed a joke, but this time I observed the truth— anyone with sharp eyes can see that you and Gu Yan have been glued to each other lately!” Yaren shoots me an ambiguous look.

Hearing these words from the Yaren is like a basin of cold water is pouring on my body, shaking me from the top of my head to the soles of my feet—

What I have been vaguely aware of in my heart, but deliberately ignored, is brought to light and exposed in one fell swoop by Yaren’s sharp words.

Stones of depression are thrown heavily into the lake of my heart, which I thought is calm, but is now rippling with waves.

“What’s wrong? Although I asked you not to freak out, you don’t have to put on such a silly face, people who know nothing might think I’m bullying you… Don’t be like that, if Gu Yan sees this, I’ll be dead!” Yaren then looks left and right in nervousness.

I shake my head and barely force a smile, wondering how ugly the expression on my face is at this point.

“I’m fine, thank you for getting me my mail.”

I squeeze the letters in my hand and feel very depressed—

I return to the dormitory with the envelopes, I’m no longer in the mood to continue working. Sitting down on the edge of my bed in frustration, I fish out the envelope out of my bosom.

Staring at the envelope I’m holding in my hand, with Xiao Cheng’s beautiful handwriting on it, for no reason, sadness wells up from the bottom of my heart, swelling up until it bursts like a bloated balloon.

This is the first time I have such a heavy heart while opening Xiao Cheng’s letter.

Two letters have accumulated, and I can’t believe I haven’t realized or even forgotten about them in the last few days! The only things that have recently filled my mind are matters within the Absolute Wing Hall and… just Gu Yan.

—I suddenly feel despicable.

How can I forget about Xiao Cheng? This should not be allowed for even a second! I feel even more frustrated—

The first letter from Xiao Cheng is about her daily life. Talking about her recent school situation, what happened with her friends and asking me how my work was going, when I could go back home for a vacation, and so on.

These are her usual greetings, but my heart faintly throbs in pain and my throat bobs in dryness.

I read the second letter more carefully, but its content is much more shocking to me than the first letter— Xiao Cheng said that she is in love, and it’s with a classmate at her school.

With her shy words, Xiao Cheng’s blushing cheeks’ and squirming look of a girl in love seems to have appeared in front of my eyes.

At this moment, I find myself feeling mixed emotions. Happy, happy for her? Or jealousy and anger at the object of her affection who snatched her? Or is it panic and fear at the possibility of losing my sister? I haven’t even had time to get my head around it yet, but what follows has me panicking again.

—Xiao Cheng asked me to take a leave of absence, a strong request at that.

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Translator: Hi my dear Wolfies! Sorry for not updating for so long, I’ll try uploading more chapters now since my semester is over, but don’t expect a stable schedule >_<. Anyways our Wolf couple is nearly coming to the end, hope you guys are still there to be with them!