You Boys Play Games Very Well

Chapter 50
Although the second canteen at Yanshan University was voted the worst canteen in the University City by a huge majority, the Affiliated Hospital of Yanshan University was a well-known authoritative hospital in the city of Hebei, where the vast majority of medical treatment costs for students could be greatly reduced.

So people often used these two things to tease the college students — eating the worst food, enjoying the best medical treatment.

Ling Meng was young and recovered quickly. After being visited by all his classmates in turn, he was discharged early with the doctor’s permission.

Those days of hospitalization almost broke Ling Meng. Back in the dormitory, he started to play games again. When Shan Zhu brought him lunch, he was playing; when he brought him dinner, he was still playing. This wasn’t the proper mindset of a patient who had just recovered.

“Stop playing, take a break,” Shan Zhu pulled him away from the computer firmly.

Good thing he had food to use as appeasement.

“What did you bring tonight, ge da soup3? Great, I like to eat ge da soup the most.”

“It’s hot; blow on it and then eat.” Shan Zhu took his hand, which was about to grab the spoon, and pulled into his arms to gently rub the back of his hand.

“When can I eat meat zongzi? …what are you doing?”

“Wait a little more. You’re supposed to eat lightly right now…massaging your hands, you fought so long, do you want to have tenosynovitis like me?”

Ling Meng’s hand was really a little sore. Shan Zhu’s massage was very refreshing.

“Comfy, comfy….ao ao ao…” he cried out.

“Keep your voice down. Just think what the next room is imagining you’re doing.”

Ling Meng smelled the exhaust of the car (sensed the dirty meaning) and blushed. “Anyway, take those condoms out of the drawer so I don’t get punished with running again.”

Ling Meng switched topics on him.

Ling Meng’s championship long distance race medal lay on the desk and Shan Zhu picked it up in his hand.

“I wanted to ask before, how are you so good at running?”

“It’s simple. When you reach the point where you can’t go on, just hold on a little longer and it’s easy to make it through.”

“Do you know what I was thinking when you sprinted?”

“What did you think?”

Shan Zhu turned and gazed at him: “If I had all my strength, I would give you all my strength, and if I could overdraw my strength by 10 times, I would give you 10 times my strength. Even if after I gave it to you, I became paralyzed, it would be worth it.”

Ling Meng’s heart raced, which was the reaction he usually had when he spoke to a girl, and he thought, was it possible for Shan Zhu to get a sex reassignment surgery?

He was frantic to change the subject. “Who doesn’t have a strong point, just like you play really well, I’m also very envious, ah.”

“Do you know why I play the game so well?”

Ling Meng guessed: “Is it talent?”

“Because someone told me to take everything seriously.”

“Oh, he’s quite right.”

Shan Zhu stared at him: “Do you really have no recollection at all?”

“What?” Ling Meng was in a daze.

“Never mind.”

Ling Meng watched as Shan Zhu picked up the scattered condoms in the drawer and remembered what he said when Shan Zhu first came to his room. “Tell me the truth, do you have thirsty powder?”

Shan Zhu threw a meaningful glance at him: “It depends on whether you’re my powder or not.”

Ling Meng jumped a bit and realized his heart was racing again. “Fuck, you yet again ZH4…”

“Faking gay to sell rot, is it? I’ll tell you,” Shan Zhu cut him off, “This phrase will soon be used by you as an idiom5.”

“Isn’t it?” Ling Meng muttered.

“How do you want me to prove it?”

Ling Meng couldn’t keep up with his train of thought, “Prove what?”

Shan Zhu moved closer and covered up Ling Meng’s mouth with his own.

Ling Meng, struck silly, sat motionless and let Shan Zhu kiss him.

After kissing for a moment like this, Shan Zhu parted their lips and stepped back. “I didn’t fake anything.”

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Footnotes:

1. face con (颜控): same as appearance-obsessed that appeared in Ch 39 ↩
2. conjugal love: the affectionate love between a couple ↩
3. ge da soup (疙瘩汤): soup with dough drops and assorted vegetables ↩
4. ZH: literally black self; internet slang for making self-depreciating jokes ↩
5. idiom (成語): specifically this kind of idiom is from classic books or historical situations and tells a story. so he’s saying soon their phrase will become history & the present situation will be different ↩

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the confession and their first kiss have arrived!!!! how will our little MengMeng react 👀