There’s a psycho who has a crush on me

Chapter 51

However, after agreeing to Yu Pei’s request, Yu Qing looked around the ward and asked seemingly casually, “Where’s your blue-eyed classmate? Has he gone back already?”

Yu Pei lowered his lashes and answered somewhat uncomfortably, “Mm… he said he was going back to prepare dinner and would bring it to the hospital for me later.”

Luo Changzhou had left more than ten minutes before Yu Qing returned, and Qi Wenqiang had left with him. Qi Wenqiang had genuinely spent an entire afternoon at the hospital. If Luo Changzhou hadn’t said he was going back to prepare dinner, given Qi Wenqiang’s attitude, she might very well have ordered takeout at the hospital to eat dinner with them.

Yu Qing was somewhat surprised to hear Yu Pei say this, because both he and Yu Pei were hospitalized. Uncle Zhuang had called again at noon asking if he should prepare meals to send to the hospital. Yu Qing felt that Uncle Zhuang was getting on in years and didn’t need such trouble. Besides, his injuries weren’t serious, so he didn’t even need to be hospitalized. Staying at the hospital was only to accompany Yu Pei. The hospital also had specialized nutritional meals, just at higher prices.

His half-joking remark to Uncle Zhuang about “someone will take care of Yu Pei” was just a playful comment. Yu Qing had thought that if the two of them were together, that blue-eyed boy would at least come to the hospital to check on Yu Pei when he had an accident. He hadn’t expected him not only to come but to actually care for Yu Pei like family, preparing all three daily meals. The only thing missing was staying overnight at the hospital.

“He’s quite good at taking care of people.” After a moment of silence, Yu Qing coughed dryly and said this, then felt it sounded strange. Even Gu Zheng, who had been buried in catching up on homework, looked over at them both.

Yu Pei also thought Yu Qing’s words sounded odd. He had the feeling that Yu Qing already knew about his relationship with Luo Changzhou, but Yu Qing wasn’t saying it directly. After thinking with his head down for a while, Yu Pei decided to confess to his brother: “Big brother, actually I…”

“Hmm?” Yu Qing also looked up at Yu Pei.

“I’m together with Luo Changzhou.” Yu Pei took a deep breath and finally said the complete sentence.

As soon as the words fell, Gu Zheng, sitting at the small folding table, widened his eyes and stared at Yu Pei.

Gu Zheng hadn’t expected Yu Pei to be so obedient in front of Yu Qing, telling him everything. These days, who didn’t hide their teenage relationships from family, afraid they’d find out? Not to mention that Yu Pei’s dating partner was also male, just like him. He’d been worrying about how to help Yu Pei and Luo Changzhou keep their secret, but now Yu Pei had revealed everything.

Then Yu Qing heard Yu Pei’s words and replied matter-of-factly, “Oh, big brother already knows.”

Now it was Yu Pei’s turn to be surprised. He asked Yu Qing, “Big brother… when did you find out?”

Yu Qing said, “Yesterday when I went to pick you up, I saw you two holding hands.”

Even if two boys had the best relationship, at most they’d walk with arms around each other’s shoulders, not interlocking fingers. Even very close female friends mostly linked arms rather than held hands.

“Oh…” Yu Pei said softly.

Both fell silent for a moment. Gu Zheng, seeing Yu Qing’s calm attitude, couldn’t help asking, “Big Brother Yu, aren’t you shocked at all?”

“I was a bit shocked.” Yu Qing looked at Gu Zheng and replied with a bland expression.

Looking at Yu Qing’s almost expressionless face, Gu Zheng had no idea where his so-called “bit shocked” showed. In Gu Zheng’s view, wasn’t men liking men something worth being shocked about? Could it be that Yu Qing actually also liked men?

Gu Zheng not only thought this but asked it directly.

Yu Qing replied dumbfounded, “What are you thinking? How is that possible?”

“I think it’s very possible.” Gu Zheng said seriously. “Big Brother Yu, you don’t even have a girlfriend.”

Yu Qing said, “I don’t have time to date.”

Gu Zheng argued stubbornly, “Even we senior year students have time to date.”

Yu Qing: “…”

“Right, I regret not dating in senior year.” Yu Qing said meaningfully.

Yu Pei immediately promised quietly, “Big brother, I’ll study hard.”

But mentioning studying still worried Yu Pei a bit. This car accident would keep him out of school for several days, and he didn’t know how much coursework he’d fall behind on. Although art students didn’t need as high cultural subject scores as regular students, he’d injured his hand—his right hand—so he wouldn’t be able to paint for quite some time.

“It’s fine, focus on recovering first.” Yu Qing wasn’t particularly strict with Yu Pei, feeling that as long as his little brother was healthy and happy, academic performance could be overlooked. Yu Pei’s grades had been terrible before, and he’d never said anything about it, so he certainly wouldn’t say anything now.

After speaking, Yu Qing got down from the hospital bed and walked toward the door.

Yu Pei asked, “Big brother, where are you going?”

“I’m going to handle discharge procedures.” Yu Qing said. “I’m not seriously injured. Tomorrow’s Monday, I should go to work.”

“I want to be discharged too.” Yu Pei quickly said. He really had no good feelings toward hospitals. As Yu Qing had said, tomorrow was Monday. Whether it was him, Gu Zheng, or Luo Changzhou, they all had to attend classes or work. He’d be left alone at the hospital.

Yu Qing stopped and turned to look at the bandage on Yu Pei’s forehead, still slightly stained with medicine. “But your head…”

“I’m feeling much better. My head isn’t very dizzy anymore.” Yu Pei was telling the truth. He’d lain in bed almost all day, and from the dizziness and disorientation when he first woke up this morning, he now felt hardly dizzy at all. Only when getting out of bed and walking did he still feel some weightlessness and disorientation, but there wasn’t much need to continue hospitalization. The Yu residence had a family doctor, so recovering at home was also possible. He added finally, “I don’t want to stay at the hospital alone.”

Yu Qing had been somewhat hesitant, but hearing Yu Pei’s last words, he finally compromised and said, “Alright.”

Yu Pei smiled, and not long after Yu Qing left the ward, Luo Changzhou returned carrying dinner. Yu Pei looked at the light sweat on Luo Changzhou’s forehead from running and said with both heartache and happiness, “Changzhou, I can be discharged tomorrow.”

Although Luo Changzhou was eighteen, he hadn’t had time to get his driver’s license yet. Unlike Gu Zheng, who had time to skip class and get his license early, Luo Changzhou could only bicycle back and forth between home and the hospital. He was setting out Yu Pei’s dinner on the table when he heard Yu Pei say he was being discharged. He couldn’t help but pause and frown, “So soon?”

“Recovering at home is the same.” Yu Pei said.

Luo Changzhou looked at Yu Pei and raised an eyebrow, but didn’t say anything.

Yu Pei understood Luo Changzhou’s meaning from just one look, so he added, “My house is closer to both the school and your house, so if you come to see me, Changzhou… it won’t be so tiring.”

Luo Changzhou’s lips curved in a smile and affectionately rubbed the back of Yu Pei’s head, handing him chopsticks and a bowl. “Eat quickly.”

Luo Changzhou had prepared a lunch box for Gu Zheng too that afternoon, since Gu Zheng had been clamoring all morning about wanting to try his cooking. But Gu Zheng, seeing their intimate behavior, felt his teeth ache and couldn’t help trying to scare Luo Changzhou, saying, “Changzhou, when you go to Ah Pei’s house, you won’t be able to be so touchy-feely with him like now. If Big Brother Yu sees you two, he’ll force you to break up with Ah Pei.”

“Oh.” Luo Changzhou said without looking up. “Doesn’t Mr. Yu already know?”

“Has he talked to you about it?”

“No.” Luo Changzhou said, “but I can sense it.”

Gu Zheng was puzzled. How could both Luo Changzhou and Yu Qing not bat an eye about this? After thinking it over, he could only conclude, “Tsk, birds of a feather flock together.” ¹The original idiom is “不是一家人不进一家门” – “if you’re not family, you don’t enter the same door.” meaning people who end up together share similar traits]

Luo Changzhou quite liked this assessment. He said to Yu Pei, “If you can recover well at home, then going home is very good. At least that way you won’t have to see Qi Wenqiang anymore. I don’t like your little first love hovering around you all the time.”

Although Yu Pei felt somewhat guilty, he still quietly protested, “My first love… was clearly you.”

He and Qi Wenqiang really had nothing between them.

Luo Changzhou raised an eyebrow and said, “So you never had a crush on her?”

Yu Pei hadn’t expected that just from Qi Wenqiang spending an afternoon in the ward, Luo Changzhou’s jealousy had fermented to such sourness. He said urgently, “That wasn’t a crush… it was, it was admiration.”

Qi Wenqiang had indeed been somewhat off today, but she hadn’t done anything in the ward. She’d seemed like she was genuinely there to visit a patient. Yu Pei didn’t understand why she’d behaved that way: “Besides… I don’t know why she came to see me either.”

“Maybe she came for me.” Gu Zheng touched his face and sighed deeply.

Yu Pei: “…”

Luo Changzhou: “…”

“I think she came for your big brother.” Luo Changzhou said.

“My big brother? That can’t be…” Yu Pei instinctively denied it, but then, thinking carefully, felt it wasn’t impossible.

Although he didn’t like to assume the worst about people, there had long been rumors among classmates that Qi Wenqiang was materialistic and wholeheartedly wanted to marry a rich man. He’d accidentally overheard several girls discussing this before.

After all, Qi Wenqiang’s relationship with him had never been good, and somewhat awkward, even. Her bringing a fruit basket to see him after his car accident was already quite polite, let alone spending an entire afternoon with him in the ward.

Senior year time was precious. Even though their school hadn’t started unified supplementary classes, many students privately went out for tutoring on weekends. Those with nothing else to do would voluntarily go to school classrooms for self-study. Qi Wenqiang wasn’t a poor student, what’s more her grades were also excellent. There was no reason for her to waste so much time sitting around with him in the hospital.

“But even if she came because of big brother, it doesn’t matter.” Yu Pei said. “We’re usually at school for classes, and big brother’s at work at the company. She can’t see my big brother.”

“That would be best.” Luo Changzhou, seeing that Yu Pei had finished eating, began collecting the lunch boxes. “Then I’ll come directly to your house to see you tomorrow.”

“Mm-hmm.” Yu Pei nodded. “Come with Ah Zheng. He drives himself to school now.”

Gu Zheng immediately made an OK gesture.

Before leaving, Luo Changzhou gently hugged Yu Pei and whispered, “Get better quickly.”