Transmigrated as My Best Friend's Ex

128. Taking Possession of His Soul and Body

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Li Qinghao enjoyed the meal, but Nancheng Lie was very depressed. After the meal, they paid the bill and went out. That beautiful waitress came up to them and asked Nancheng Lie if he would keep in touch with her. With a smile Li Qinghao chipped in before Nancheng Lie could answer. “Yes, of course he will. I can give you his phone number.”

Just as the words fell from Li Qinghao’s lips, Nancheng Lie’s face clouded. He grabbed Li Qinghao by the wrist and urged Li away from the restaurant. “You behave yourself!” There was a hint of anger in his voice. Strangely, Li Qinghao was delighted. His lips curled up into a faint, pleased smile.

The moonlight threw the two men’s elongated shadows on the ground. Li Qinghao had no intention of freeing himself from Nancheng Lie’s grasp. He looked sideways at Nancheng Lie. This guy had a handsome face, and his features were much more defined than when he was a child. Suddenly, Li Qinghao recalled that Nancheng Lie had often looked at him with suppressed feelings in the past. His heart ached for his childhood sweetheart, Nancheng Lie.

If he had realized his feelings for Nancheng Lie earlier, Nancheng Lie wouldn’t have led a life of dissipation.

Suddenly, Li Qinghao took hold of Nancheng Lie’s hand and stopped him from walking on. Nancheng Lie looked back at Li Qinghao and asked, “What’s wrong?” Although he frowned, his voice was tender.

Li Qinghao didn’t answer. He crooked his finger. Nancheng Lie looked at Li Qinghao with a puzzled expression on his face and stood stock-still.

“You moron!” Li Qinghao cursed. He grabbed Nancheng Lie by the collar and pulled Nancheng closer to him. Then, under Nancheng’s surprised gaze, Li Qinghao stood on tiptoe and kissed him Lie on the lips.

There were many people coming and going on the street. The passersby were attracted by the young couple. Some pointed and talked about them; some took out cell phones to take pictures. Maybe it was because Li Qinghao shoulder-length hair was swept back in a ponytail that the passersby mistook him for a girl. Therefore, the scene of their kissing didn’t cause a stir.

Nancheng Lie was puzzled at first, and then felt surprised. Now he froze with his eyes open wide.

They finally broke the kiss when both of them were slightly out of breath. Li Qinghao let go of Nancheng Lie, looked him in the eye and said word by word, “I’m not afraid of people knowing that I’m a gay person, because I only care about you in the world.”

Nancheng Lie made no response to Li Qinghao’s confession of love. He was still dazed. ‘Did I scare him?’ Li Qinghao thought to himself. A few seconds later, Nancheng Lie finally came back to his senses. He put his arms around Li Qinghao’s waist, pulled him closer to his chest and whispered in his ear, “Xu.” His low, melodious voice was full of emotion. He was greatly touched by what Li Qinghao said. “Xu…” Nancheng called his name again and again.

Li Qinghao chuckled and said, “Let’s go home.” They would get into trouble if they went on like this on the street.

“No.”

“Nancheng Lie!”

“I don’t want to let go of you.”

“Lie…” Nancheng Lie’s childishness made Li Qinghao feel helpless.

“I got an idea.” Nancheng Lie suddenly let go of Li Qinghao and squatted down. “Climb on to my back, Xu.”

“What?”

“I want to walk home with you in my arms, but I know you will refuse because you are thin-skinned. But what you did just now moved me so deeply that I can’t bear to let go of your hand. The only way is to carry you on my back. I remember your doctor told you not to overuse your leg, right?”

Hearing this, Li Qinghao curved his lips into a happy smile. He leaned on Nancheng Lie’s back, feeling relaxed and peaceful.

Nancheng Lie’s broad shoulders gave Li Qinghao a sense of security, just like when they were boys. At that time, Nancheng Lie hadn’t been as tall and strong as he was now, and Han Mingxu had been a 13-year-old boy, a little taller than he was now.

In junior high school, a girl fell in love with Han Mingxu and decisively broke up with her boyfriend. One day her ex-boyfriend came to Han Mingxu with a bunch of hired thugs. At that time, Han Mingxu was not very good at fighting. Although he had been trained, he lacked experience. So, it was certainly impossible for him to deal with several thugs at the same time.

Then he got hurt.

Later, Nancheng Lie came to save him. Li Qinghao would never forget what happened that day– Nancheng Lie, who looked like a gentleman, nearly beat that boy to death. ‘If I hadn’t stopped him, he would have killed that boy,’ Li Qinghao thought to himself.

 

He still remembered what Nancheng Lie said at that time– “He hurt you. I’m going to kill him.”

At that time, he was too young to understand Nancheng Lie’s real feelings for him. He thought that Nancheng Lie treated him only as a good friend. But now he realized that Nancheng Lie was in love with him from a very young age.

Li Qinghao twined his arms around Nancheng Lie’s neck and leaned on Nancheng’s broad shoulders. “Lie.”

His lips were so close to Nancheng Lie’s ear that his breath tickled him, as Nancheng’s breathing sped up. He seemed to be flirting with Nancheng.

“Uh-huh.”

“Thank you.” Seeing that Nancheng’s face flushed scarlet, Li Qinghao was in a good mood.

“What?” Nancheng Lie was a little uncomfortable. He felt his body burning, because Li Qinghao’s chest was clinging to his back.

“Thank you for protecting me since childhood. Thank you for loving me. Thank you for not giving up on me.” What would happened to him if Nancheng Lie had given up on him several years ago? Li Qinghao’s eyes blinked. Maybe he would have discovered earlier that he loved Nancheng Lie. Then he would have tried everything to win back Nancheng’s heart.

“Er… Don’t mention it.” Nancheng Lie was flattered. He didn’t expect Xu to be such a creature of the emotions.

“Can I ask you a question, Lie?”

“Yes of course you can. I’ll answer any questions you may have,” Nancheng Lie replied without hesitation. From small to large, everything about Han Mingxu could easily make him lose his senses.

“What will you do if I marry and have children instead of responding to your love?” The question was hard to answer, because this assumption was unlikely to happen. But Li Qinghao wanted an answer. They two naturally became friends as children, but they never had a heart-to-heart talk with each other. Nancheng Lie had many friends, but Han Mingxu only had a friend, Nancheng Lie. Why didn’t he have a chance to make more friends? Was it because no one wanted to be his friends? No. Many people had tried to get close to him, but gave up at last. In the past, he paid no attention to this. But in retrospect, he felt that something was strange.

Nancheng Lie thought for a while and answered, “I’ll treat your children as my own.” Because he loved Xu dearly.

Li Qinghao gave a smile and asked, “What about my wife?” As far as he knew, Nancheng Lie was not an unselfish man.

Just as he expected, the next moment Nancheng Lie’s face clouded over. “What do you mean? Do you want me to treat your wife as my own?”

“Bang…” Li Qinghao raised a hand and knocked Nancheng on the head. “Do you think I’ll be happy to be cuckolded?”

‘God knows what’s happening in this guy’s mind,’ Li Qinghao thought.

Nancheng Lie remained silent for a while, and then said, “Xu.”

“Uh-huh.”

“I lied to you.”

“Oh?”

“If one day you married and had a baby, I would be unable to control myself.”

“To be honest, what would you do?”

“I would explode with anger, and perhaps I would kill them.” He didn’t allow Xu to be with anyone else, whether it was a man or a woman. A saying goes, “If you love someone, set him free”. But Nancheng Lie thought it was absolute nonsense.

In his opinion, loving a person meant to take possession of his soul and body. He would never give up unless Xu remained single all his life. “The thought that you might have a baby with another woman makes me angry and jealous. I can’t control myself.” He knew very well that he was not a broad-minded man. “Do you think I’m going too far, Xu?

‘Is Xu afraid? After all, I’m very possessive about him,’ Nancheng Lie thought to himself. He was a little bit nervous, feeling stiff in the legs. “I don’t want to deceive you.”

“Yes,” Li Qinghao answered in a low voice. Then he leaned forward and whispered in Nancheng Lie’s ear, “But I like it.”

Nancheng Lie was stunned. Li Qinghao chuckled and said, “You fool.”

After a while, Nancheng Lie finally came back to his senses, eyes gleaming with tenderness. Since childhood, Nancheng loved Han Mingxu and always tried his best to protect him. He wanted to stay with him forever.

Behind them were two men looking inquiringly at their receding figures.

“Is he your old flame?” One of them was Max’s new lover.

Max denied, “No, he’s just my friend.”

The man gave a mocking chuckle. He raised Max’s chin with his finger and said ironically, “Do you think I’m an idiot? No wonder you accepted me as your boyfriend so easily. It turns out that you are not a virgin.”

“Hold your tongue,” Max said in a cold voice.

“Are you angry because my words have given great offence to your old flame? Who is he?”

“Don’t try to cross him. You can’t afford to offend him.”

“Oh? Really? You arouse my curiosity.”

Max glanced at him and said, “You can make an investigation of him if you want.”