Published at 5th of September 2019 12:32 pm

Chapter 89 - Training

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Translator(s): Zryuu

Editor(s): Amalea, FistFullOfDollars, Juurensha

Yu Hao gazed beneath the sea of clouds and saw that more dark clouds had dispersed in various areas, and a golden light that reflected in the arena below.

“Including Satan, there are still 11 enemies left.” Yu Hao said, “Does everyone have that many obstacles in their hearts?”

“For many people, it's possible to have even more ba.” Zhou Sheng said lightly, “Is Tao Tie a symbol of material greed? Indeed, I’ve always been a little unresigned.”

Yu Hao sat down cross-legged beside Zhou Sheng and touched his head. Zhou Sheng smiled at him like a brave general who had just won a battle.

“Say, what on earth do you think it is?” Zhou Sheng stared at the Golden Crow Wheel in a daze again, “Why did it choose me?”

Yu Hao looked up and the two of them fell into silence. The flares of the Golden Crow Wheel surged continuously like the prominence of the sun.

“Is your totem in Satan’s hands?” Yu Hao asked.

“It’s split into two halves.” Zhou Sheng said, “The Golden Crow Wheel is considered as one half ba, the other half is in the arena below.”

“That’s possible too?” Yu Hao was surprised.

Zhou Sheng looked sideways at Yu Hao, “I don’t know why either. Everything here above the clouds became like this the day it came into my dream.”

Yu Hao’s eyebrows were set in a deep furrow as he kept thinking about the influence of the Golden Crow Wheel on Zhou Sheng’s dreamscape. It did sound extremely outrageous, but he could somewhat understand it. Assuming that Zhou Sheng had always been living a miserable life before he inadvertently picked up the Golden Crow Wheel, which then altered and carved his life up —— since he obtained a certain degree of confidence and strength because of this new ability, it was as if his life had begun anew, and his conviction was strengthened.

But on the other hand, his real life was still plagued by innumerable problems.

So the perception of his ‘self’ was split along with this process.

“General.” Yu Hao said earnestly, “I must talk to you very seriously and earnestly about this issue.”

Zhou Sheng turned his head around in a daze.

“I think it’s enough.” Yu Hao said, “What I need is not a perfect you.”

Zhou Sheng frowned and didn’t say anything.

Yu Hao said, “I like you, including your bad temper, your happiness, anger, joys, sorrows, your strengths, and all your weaknesses, just like how you like me! Zhou Sheng, you need to understand that no matter what you become, I’ll still like you.”

Zhou Sheng’s expression changed instantaneously.

“Fuck……” Zhou Sheng turned around and avoided Yu Hao’s gaze.

Yu Hao said, “Zhou Sheng?”

Yu Hao felt a bit uneasy. Should he have not said all that after Zhou Sheng went through so many hardships to defeat Medusa? But Zhou Sheng continued to avoid Yu Hao’s gaze.

“Okay! Okay!” Zhou Sheng answered, “I promise you! Come over here……behave yourself!”

Zhou Sheng forcibly pulled Yu Hao over and hugged him from behind. The two of them leaned on the white stone fence and gazed at the sky.

The flames of the Golden Crow Wheel suddenly retreated, and night seemed to fall. Within an instant, millions of meteors turned into white lines that flew across the night sky.

“Wah!” Yu Hao cried out, “What’s that? Why would there suddenly be meteors……”

“Shh, don’t talk.” Zhou Sheng whispered.

The two of them looked up, and after a long time passed, the meteor shower disappeared, and the Golden Crow Wheel resumed its brilliant radiance.

Yu Hao could feel Zhou Sheng trembling, so he asked, “What is it?”

“Idiot.” Zhou Sheng mocked.

“You!” Yu Hao got angry.

Zhou Sheng’s eyes were a little red; he lowered his head and kissed Yu Hao’s nape.

“Don’t mention anything else first, but can’t you give me a bit of a reward today?” Zhou Sheng said.

Yu Hao straddled Zhou Sheng and said, “Reproductive isolation exists between us.”

Zhou Sheng burst out laughing, and the black dragon flew over in an instant. Yu Hao said to the black dragon, “Go away!”

“It can’t go away.” Zhou Sheng said mysteriously.

Yu Hao, “Turn into a monkey for me?”

Zhou Sheng said, “What?! You’re that hardcore?!”

Yu Hao said, “Your monkey form’s really cool! It’s both tall and cool! This is a dream anyway……”

Zhou Sheng, “And now you think I’m too short???”

“I don’t!” Yu Hao said, but Zhou Sheng slowly took the form of the Sun Wukong he saw in Shi Ni’s dream. It was just like a 2-metre tall plush toy, and it was even alive and had a heartbeat too.

“So cool!” Yu Hao hugged Sun Wukong and shouted.

“This doesn’t seem very right though?” Zhou Sheng smiled and lifted one hand to embrace Yu Hao. Yu Hao pecked his cheek a few times, but suddenly, an alarm clock rang between the heavens and earth.

Yu Hao, “……”

Zhou Sheng, “……”

The two of them woke up, but Fu Liqun was still sleeping.

“Gege! What the hell are you trying to do?!” Yu Hao complained in anguish.

Fu Liqun crawled up groggily. It was 8.30 in the morning.

“Ah.” Fu Liqun said, “I have to go to work……”

Zhou Sheng laid on bed, all five of his fingers spasming. He grasped tightly for awhile before loosening his grip in resignation.

“Okay, I lost to you.”

“I think I have to go to work too……” Yu Hao was a little dizzy as he climbed out of bed to boil water, “Drink a cup of coffee before leaving ba.”

“Thank you……” Fu Liqun was obviously a little fatigued, “I want to open a national chain of gyms in the future, so I’ll learn the ropes first.”

Zhou Sheng's anger had dissipated. He said to Fu Liqun, “Jiayou.”

“Jiayou, Gege.” Yu Hao said, “You can definitely do it.”

Fu Liqun washed up before going to the gym to work. From today on, he would try his best to go over on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.

Yu Hao looked at his phone. He had to go for an interview with Xiao Yujun in the morning today, while Zhou Sheng would begin tutoring for two hours starting from 11 o’clock. In the afternoon, everyone would go to the college’s library together to study.

“Wanna eat your popsicle?” Zhou Sheng sat on the bed and said to Yu Hao.

Yu Hao had just taken a bath and was a little embarrassed.

Zhou Sheng said, “Have you washed it clean?”

Yu Hao remained silent and blushed.

“Why are you being all pure now?” Zhou Sheng smiled, “Now I’m embarrassed too. There’s still an hour before you have to leave, treat Hubby to a popsicle bei, Wifey.”

Zhou Sheng got out of bed and motioned for Yu Hao to lean back against the ladder, pulled his hands away and got him to hold the ladder from above his head.

Yu Hao, “I, I’m letting you eat? Wait……it’s embarrassing, waah……”

Zhou Sheng said, “It’s just a little exchange ma, I’ll teach you.”

Yu Hao, “But you’ve never eaten one before……wait! Ai……”

The sun shone brightly on Ying City that autumn morning. Yu Hao wore a sports cap as he stepped on his skateboard and skated around a flat road in the park at the heart of the streets before arriving at the meeting place he had arranged with Xiao Yujun.

It’s so fun to skateboard in the park. Ever since Yu Hao learned how to skateboard, he never wanted to get off of it. Unfortunately, he couldn’t skateboard around the streets. Most people skateboarded to school and after school. Zhou Sheng bought a skateboard bag for him so he could still carry it around with him when he wasn’t skateboarding, similar to how he carries his shield on his back.

Yu Hao didn’t dare to skateboard along the road like how his third year seniors would casually do, but it was okay to play around in the park. The autumn air was refreshing, and the temperature was just right; when the slight breeze brushed by, he would feel extremely content from head to toe. Today, all he could think about was the exciting scene in the dormitory, that was his first time……and he didn’t expect that Zhou Sheng would be that serious.

Does it matter whether or not we want to do that? Yu Hao had already been completely conquered by Zhou Sheng. In the past, he hadn’t always desired sex, and he would have been very happy as long as they could be together. However, what was said in his major’s class was really right, and it couldn’t be more right.

Sex was a strong catalyst in the reaction of love. The excitement from tasting the forbidden fruit for the first time, as well as the feeling of giving oneself completely and thoroughly to the other party made it seem as if Yu Hao had opened the door to a whole new world.

No, I can’t think about it anymore, Yu Hao felt that he was getting a little too distracted by all of Zhou Sheng’s teasing.

“Skateboard boy!” Xiao Yujun laughed, “You’re in a pretty good mood today ma!”

“It can’t get any better!” Yu Hao stepped on his skateboard and put it away, “I’ll buy coffee for you.”

“I’m so envious of people in relationships.” Xiao Yujun said, “Let’s go little puppy, let Jiejie take advantage of you too and enjoy having someone carry my bag for me.” As she spoke, she threw her bag to Yu Hao. Yu Hao was still very good at taking care of people, especially girls.

Today, Xiao Yujun and Yu Hao were here to attend a salon. The purpose of this salon was to provide a venue for parents with kids who had psychological problems to interact with one another. In its earliest stages, there were only a few elderly people complaining about their grandsons to one another, but it had slowly developed into this meeting for exchanges today.

After listening for awhile, Yu Hao realised that the so-called “communication barrier” wasn’t mental illness, but a real unwillingness to understand each other, and parents were largely responsible for this.

After they finished recording, Xiao Yujun passed the recording pen to Yu Hao and as usual, Yu Hao would go looking for Chen Yekai to seek his “expert advice”. In the afternoon, he studied with Zhou Sheng, while Fu Liqun was half dead from fatigue and had come back for an afternoon nap. He still had to go to the gym that night.

Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng sat side by side at a long table in the library. He couldn’t absorb what he was reading at all, and as soon as he thought of what happened in their dormitory today, he would lose focus and would always want to look at Zhou Sheng or kiss him. Yet, Zhou Sheng said with a stern countenance, “Study seriously!”

Yu Hao, “You’re not reading either.”

Zhou Sheng had only flipped through three pages of his English exercise book in the past hour, and he kept sneaking glimpses of Yu Hao from the corner of his eye.

“Where did you learn it from?” Yu Hao said.

“Don’t you watch videos?” Zhou Sheng was blushing slightly and whispered, “Or are your skills a natural gift?”

There weren’t a lot of people in the library, and they were scattered about as well. Yu Hao moved and sat opposite Zhou Sheng without answering him.

“Come back!” Zhou Sheng whispered.

Yu Hao smiled and glanced at him. He could look at him openly since they now sat face to face, it just wasn’t convenient to talk. So Zhou Sheng could only start working on some problems absentmindedly. A moment later, he took a book and wrote on it before pushing it towards Yu Hao to talk to him. Yu Hao wrote on it and pushed it back, then Zhou Sheng did the same again.

In the end, Zhou Sheng packed the book away, got up, and left.

“I’ll buy groceries and cook for you.” Zhou Sheng said, “Remember to return to the dorm at 6, I won’t disturb you anymore.”

So Yu Hao had to study alone. After Zhou Sheng left, Yu Hao was finally able to concentrate and finished organising the manuscripts from yesterday, then did a set of questions. Next, he moved onto statistics, but it was so difficult it made his head spin. When it was 6 o’clock, Yu Hao decided to stop studying and packed his books to return to the dormitory. He discovered that Chen Yekai had sent him several messages.

Yu Hao was intending to pass him the data anyway. He took his USB and left. Chen Yekai was waiting downstairs for him at the library.

The autumn wind blew, and behind the library was a beautiful bamboo forest.

Chen Yekai said, “Finally free.”

“Thank you for your hard work.” Yu Hao smiled, “It’s time for you to have a good rest.”

Chen Yekai and Yu Hao walked side by side. He smiled as he said, “After finishing up with work, there will always be a slight sense of emptiness and loss. Ever since that day, I always think about when you guys will enter my dream again. How’s your part-time job going recently?”

Yu Hao talked to Chen Yekai about the interviews. Junjun would pay him through the fees for his manuscripts. Chen Yekai nodded after hearing this. The two of them slowly walked along the bamboo forest. Yu Hao sent a message to Zhou Sheng to tell him that he would return ten minutes later than planned.

This quiet road led to the teaching building behind the library. In the past year, the college had undergone many changes. Various buildings were built, and if there were no complications, the college would obtain new ratings and recruit more students before the next summer vacation as well. So after graduation, Yu Hao’s diploma would become more valuable.

“I suddenly dreamt of you on the last day of the previous month.” Chen Yekai suddenly said.

“You remember it so clearly.” Yu Hao smiled, “It was a dream from more than a month ago.”

“Un. It left a particularly deep impression.” Chen Yekai said, “Will you guys still come into my dream?”

“We won’t anymore ba.” Yu Hao remembered what Zhou Sheng said to him and answered, “We’re all living in reality. It’s not good to indulge in dreams.”

“That’s true.” Chen Yekai fell silent for a moment, then said, “We can’t always think fondly of the past; it’s better to look ahead and live a good life. That was what Ryuusei wanted to say to me in that letter too.”

Yu Hao studied Chen Yekai, then finally said, “Chen Laoshi, thank you.”

Chen Yekai looked slightly puzzled, then understood what Yu Hao had meant. He smiled, “I’m the one who should be thanking you guys.”

“Where are we going?” Yu Hao was slightly bewildered.

“Nowhere.” Chen Yekai smiled, “After submitting the materials, I just wanted to talk to someone. Let’s have dinner together? There’s something I want to talk to you about too.”

Yu Hao, “Another day ba? I want to treat you to a meal too.”

“What are you happy about? Chen Yekai laughed.

“I’m with Zhou Sheng now.” Yu Hao said with a smile.

At that moment, Yu Hao became nervous. The last thing he wanted to see was for Chen Yekai to really like him; after all, those feelings would have come from his yearning for Ryuusei. Not only was that bad for himself, but it was also harmful to Chen Yekai.

Yu Hao didn’t want to hurt others, especially someone who treated him so well, but not making things clear was also another kind of harm.

Chen Yekai was extremely surprised and with joy in his eyes, he said, “Since when? Congratulations!”

“Uh……at the end of summer vacation.” Yu Hao was a little embarrassed. At this moment, he felt that Chen Yekai really was happy for him. Zhou Sheng’s deduction was wrong.

Chen Yekai smiled, “I did feel that Zhou Sheng cared about you a lot. Congratulations, Yu Hao!”

Yu Hao was also very happy at this moment. Ever since Zhou Sheng mentioned this that day, he had been thinking about it over and over. But now that he confirmed that Zhou Sheng’s speculation was wrong, it was great.

“If you guys want to get married abroad in the future.” Chen Yekai, “I can help you get in touch with some people.”

Yu Hao hadn’t thought about it before, but now that Chen Yekai mentioned it, he immediately remembered the chapel in his dream.

Following which, someone whistled in the bamboo forest. Yu Hao and Chen Yekai turned around; Zhou Sheng had come.

“Kaikai.” Zhou Sheng held the Golden Crow Wheel in his hand, flicked it with his thumb, and the Golden Crow Wheel spun rapidly in the air. Chen Yekai raised his hand and caught it between his palms, “I’ll leave it to you.”

“Don’t need it anymore?” Chen Yekai said.

Zhou Sheng nodded and held his hand out to Yu Hao. Yu Hao was very surprised that Zhou Sheng would hand over the Golden Crow Wheel at this time, but he didn’t question it much. He walked towards Zhou Sheng, and the two of them held hands.

“I haven’t prepared any gifts for you guys.” Chen Yekai said, “Is there anything you want?”

Zhou Sheng smiled, “Nothing at all. Let’s drink together when you come back ba.”

Chen Yekai said, “That’s a promise then.” As he spoke, he turned around and left.

“Your guess was wrong.” Yu Hao said to Zhou Sheng.

Zhou Sheng said indifferently, “If I guessed wrong then so be it, is that important?”

Yu Hao sniffed, and smelled the scent of pepper and anise on Zhou Sheng’s body. “What did you cook? I’m starving to death!”

The Golden Crow Wheel was handed over just like that. Yu Hao often wondered if it would be a historic day of their lives, but that action had not yet yielded any results. From now on, he would never see the Dark Zhou Sheng who could turn into Satan in his dreams, nor his NPCs and the black dragon with covetous eyes anymore.

“You finally listened to me for once.” Yu Hao said.

Zhou Sheng said, “Fuck, don’t I always listen to you?”

Yu Hao laughed.

Zhou Sheng said, “When you said that you didn’t need a perfect me, I thought it was the second time in my life I felt that moved.”

Yu Hao asked doubtfully, “Then when was the first time?”

Zhou Sheng said, “I don’t want to recall that embarrassing moment, could you not mention it?”

So Yu Hao could only answer, “Okay then. But we’ll have to fight the rest of the monsters in reality, and not in dreams anymore. Nobody is perfect, I don’t want a perfect lover.”

There were still many people who live on arduously in this world. They knew of the many obstacles and shadows in their hearts, but found them difficult to overcome.

“I know, as long as you’re by my side,” Zhou Sheng said, “I’ll feel like there’s nothing that can beat me up.”

“I can beat you up.” Yu Hao said.

“That’s true.” On the basketball court, Zhou Sheng laughed like a ruffian as he dribbled, “But you can’t bear to. Where are you staring at? You want to eat a popsicle again?”

Zhou Sheng passed the ball to Yu Hao. Yu Hao picked up the ball and wanted to throw it at him, but Zhou Sheng was prepared to dodge. Fu Liqun then arrived.

But the black dragon, Satan……they are always there, in Zhou Sheng’s soul. When Yu Hao thought of this, he felt like a person’s inner world was practically a grand and vast universe. The partitions amongst people were like mountains, seas, and the Great Wall. Without the strength of the Golden Crow Wheel, he might have never, for all his life, have been able to truly and thoroughly understand his lover.

“Don’t look at my hand when you catch the ball, baby.” Fu Liqun dribbled while Yu Hao waited behind Zhou Sheng for Fu Liqun to pass it to him.

They agreed to participate in a three-player basketball match, so Fu Liqun gave Yu Hao specialized individual training. Yu Hao knew how to play a little, but thought he was bad at it, while Zhou Sheng acted as a training partner and helped Yu Hao train his interception and other such skills.

Fu Liqun was the captain of the basketball team. As soon as he gets on the basketball court, he instantly turns into a lofty and imposing giant. For him, basketball competitions were sacred.

“You must be all eyes and all ears.” Fu Liqun said to Yu Hao, “Pay attention to your teammates; your teammates would make some false moves sometimes……”

“Pass!” Fu Liqun said again.

Yu Hao kept practicing catching and intercepting the ball. Once Zhou Sheng and Fu Liqun became serious, Yu Hao felt like he was practically a noob who couldn’t seize the ball from them at all.

“Look up a little.” Fu Liqun could tell that Yu Hao had received a blow, so he encouraged him, “Don’t stare at the hands, analyse my feints from the corner of your eyes.”

As the captain of the basketball team, Fu Liqun led his classmates in the sports class to win several friendly competitions, so he had his own way of teaching people how to play. Once he got serious, Yu Hao felt like his male god halo was restored the moment he stepped onto the court. Not only did he teach Yu Hao, but he also taught Zhou Sheng, and he had begun working out tactics for their mutual cooperation.

It was still early before the three-man basketball match would be held at the end of the year. Fu Liqun hoped to get a good placing, and then he would be awarded a generous prize award for the college appraisal this year.

“What do you want to do after getting the prize money?” Yu Hao asked.

“Let’s all go to Australia together.” Zhou Sheng said, “Business class and a luxurious sea view room all depend on you now, Young Madam.”

Yu Hao said, “Depending on me to not hold you guys back?”

Fu Liqun laughed, “You won’t hold us back, I’m confident of that. You should have confidence in yourself too.”

Fu Liqun and Zhou Sheng’s combat abilities were too strong. Yu Hao felt like he was just here to make up the numbers. If the rules were changed to ‘two-man basketball’, then this pair would become an existence that would kill everyone in their way.

“Intercept!”

“Intercept—— take note, this isn’t a ball, but a point——”

“Catch!”

Fu Liqun finished teaching on the court and even threw all kinds of strange things to Yu Hao in the dormitory, including plastic cups, a toothbrush, Zhou Sheng’s cigarettes and lighters, and even the pillow from the opposite bunk. In the end, he even threw a plastic ball at him that came from the opposite dormitory that was used as a dog toy. Yu Hao felt like he was a dog himself, and had to always pay attention to things that were flying around everywhere, and intercept them at all times. His nerves were all keyed up.

“Catch!"

Yu Hao, “Don’t throw mooncakes! That’s food!"

Translator's Note:

Zryuu: LMAO IM SO AMUSED AT FLQ’S TRAINING TACTICS

Juurensha: Yaaay FLQ gets his moment to shine

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