Wolves of a Pair Prowl Together

Wan Fei was pulled into Lao Jiang’s van by Bian Nan and stuffed into the seats in the last row. His face was overcast and silent the entire time, like an unlucky creditor who was beaten up by the debt collector when he didn’t pay his debt.

The other team members didn’t ask them anything and were all chatting in front. Although Wan Fei had won the game today, it was laborious, so it was normal to be unhappy.

“Let’s have a meal later.” Li Dan, who was sitting in the front row, looked back at Bian Nan.

Bian Nan glanced at Wan Fei, “We’re not eating.”

“It’s necessary,” Li Dan smiled, stretching out his hand and snapped his fingers in front of Wan Fei. “Just winning is okay, don’t think too much.”

“Don’t bother me!” Wan Fei glared at him.

“Aiyo!” Li Dan stared with wide eyes, “Wan Fei, don’t be irrational. Lao niang is in a bad mood today and hasn’t found anyone to vent my anger yet. Believe it or not, I’ll hang you outside the car!”
(t/n: lao niang is in reference to himself as a pretty lady)

Wan Fei looked at him. After a moment of silence, he said happily, “You said you’re an attractive lady. How could this image be ruined by a mouth that destroys heaven and earth…”

Wan Fei whispered the last half-sentence and even turned his face away.

“I heard it!” Li Dan glared at him for a while, then sighed and turned to Bian Nan, “Don’t eat then. Go back and brush this kitten’s fur, he’s so thorny, simply can’t be played with anymore.” 

Bian Nan patted Wan Fei on the shoulder and smiled wordlessly.

Wan Fei was very upset. He went back to the dormitory and lay in bed without talking.

Bian Nan didn’t mention what happened before. He could understand Wan Fei’s grievances. Whether he rushed over at that time or asked Xu Rui alone, he had already lost face. Now Wan Fei was holding a belly full of inexplicable fire and had no way to vent.

Bian Nan changed his clothes and stood by his bed, “Wanna go out for a walk?”

“Nan ge, let me ask you a question.” Wan Fei looked at him with his arm on his pillow.

“Ask.” Bian Nan took a lollipop from the table and held it in his mouth.

“Do you have any other clothes besides sportswear?” Wan Fei sat up and pointed to his clothes, “You train in sportswear, usually are in sportswear, while in school, you’re in sportswear, and in fucking sportswear even when you go out, aren’t you bothered?”

“No, they’re all sportswear of the same colour. What’s the matter?” Bian Nan said with a smile.

“No wonder Zhang Xiaorong doesn’t like you!” Wan Fei clenched his teeth with hatred.

“Do you not have anywhere else to release your anger, idiot,” Bian Nan laughed. He turned around to take out a shirt from the cupboard, changing into it leisurely, “There’re so many others who have a crush on me, what does one Zhang Xiaorong matter?”

Wan Fei hummed and didn’t speak.

“If I’m willing, with a wave of my hand, maybe there would even be men who’d jump on me right now.” After changing his shirt, Bian Nan stood in front of Wan Fei, “Are you satisfied now, boss?” 

“Today,” Wan Fei stared at his face, “Tonight.”

“Do you want to ask Xu Rui first?” Bian Nan immediately understood what Wan Fei was talking about. Xu Rui and Zhang Xiaorong were in the same class and they usually had a good relationship. In theory, she should not have anything to do with the people Zhang Xiaorong likes.

“Ask bullshit,” Wan Fei jumped out of bed and turned twice in the dormitory, “I would have found him even if this hadn’t happened!”

Just as he was about to turn again, the dormitory door opened. Zhu Bin and Sun Yifan came back with two bags of snacks. Wan Fei rushed up and grabbed a can of potato chips, stuffed a few chips into his mouth and crunched on them. 

Bian Nan pulled the bag and looked inside, but wasn’t interested in any of the snacks, so he took potato chips from Wan Fei’s hand and chewed on them tastelessly.

He hated Qiu Yi so much.

If it were only Zhang Xiaorong between them, he may not have kept targeting Qiu Yi, as it wasn’t worth it for a girl. However, now that the situation concerned Wan Fei, let alone if Wan Fei were doing it for a girl or even a female monkey, he would intervene. 

Now, he and Qiu Yi had previously scraped away the female monkeys- no, scraped away the girls. There was also a pile of new and old hatred. As he thought about Qiu Yi’s expression and voice when he provoked him outside the parking lot the other day, his anger flared up.

And linking on to thinking about how this mixed-race little white face may know the secrets he didn’t want anyone to know…

“Gege,” Qiu Yan leaned against the kitchen door, “I want to play tennis.”

“Don’t think about it. You wanted to play the violin last month.” Qiu Yi was preparing dinner for his dad and Qiu Yan in advance. He tried hard to prepare dinner in advance every day so it can be easily heated up to eat. When he was running late, he could only leave some money for Qiu Yan to buy.

“It’s for exercise, didn’t you say we need to exercise?” Qiu Yan ran to him and stood next to his legs.

“If you want to exercise, just get up and run in the morning,” Qiu Yi said.

“But you won’t accompany me too,” Qiu Yan squatted on the ground unhappily. “You also said you’d accompany me to watch the game, but you only went in for a minute and left.”

“I just needed to see what big tiger looks like,” Qiu Yi pinched a piece of meat from the pot and put it in Qiu Yan’s mouth. He felt a little surprised that big tiger really was Bian Nan, and still thought it was a little suspicious.   

“I asked big tiger to teach me to play tennis!” Qiu Yan shouted after eating the meat, before turning around and ran out of the kitchen.

In the afternoon, Qiu Yi was going to tutor Chen Tingting. After playing the remote control car with Qiu Yan for a while, he went out the door under the pressure of time. 

Several of his tutoring students were introduced by his former classmates and teachers. When the headteacher introduced the students to him, he always added a sentence. It’s a pity for you, Qiu Yi.

After listening to this sentence, Qiu Yi almost fell ill. Whether it’s pity for him or not, he didn’t feel much. Although there were conditions, he should meet his classmates and teachers’ expectations and should have high scores in the high school entrance examination, high scores in the college entrance examination, and enter 211 or 985…
(t/n: 211 or 985 project are china’s prestigious universities) 

But the fact was that he couldn’t. His path was to enter the technical school and make money quickly, and should even earn during breaks. 

All he could do was face reality.

In fact, facing reality was his strength. He had mastered this skill since the year his mother passed. 

Chen Tingting’s parents were not at home. They had prepared a lot of food on the table. Every time Qiu Yi comes to her house, he thinks he’s coming to a tea party.

In addition to Chen Tingting, Qiu Yi also saw Bian Xinyu, who was teasing the cat on the couch. Although the two girls were a junior and a senior, they had a good relationship. He often saw Bian Xinyu at Chen Tingting’s house.

“Hey, we meet again, handsome boy,” Bian Xinyu waved to him, “Do you mind if I come to sit in class again?”

“If you can shut up and keep quiet then it’s fine.” Qiu Yi sat down at the table and looked down at the exam paper Chen Tingting had placed on it, preparing to guide her through the wrong answers. 

“I’ll have something to eat first.” Chen Tingting reached for the chicken feet on the table.

“We’re starting,” Qiu Yi held the chicken feet and pushed all the snacks aside. When it comes to Chen Tingting, she could eat after a while, go to the bathroom after a while, play with her mobile phone after a while- for the whole afternoon, “You can eat again during the break.”

Chen Tingting was quite cooperative. She lay half-dead on the table listening to his lecture, but she didn’t become distracted.

After the two papers were finished, Qiu Yi glanced at the clock on the wall, “Let’s take a break, five minutes.”

“You’re more annoying than our teacher,” Chen Tingting took the chicken feet and squeezed onto the sofa with Bian Xinyu. “We haven’t finished yet. Where will your ge take you this weekend?”

“Camping outing, backpacking or something.” Bian Xin said, sounding uninterested.

“What’s the meaning of that?” Chen Tingting’s mouth twitched.

“That’s better than staying at home,” Bian Xinyu glanced at Qiu Yi, “Bian Nan must go home this weekend. If he doesn’t go home, my dad will pick him up, it’s annoying enough!”

“Your ge is at home, what are you afraid of? How would he dare to do anything? It’s not even his home.” Chen Tingting said while eating.

“Ai,” Bian Xinyu frowned and her voice trembled. “He didn’t just fight with my ge once or twice. He was so cruel, and even broke my ge’s head. Last time, if my dad hadn’t stopped him, he would have hit my ge with a chair! I’ve never seen such a person…”

Qiu Yi looks down at his phone, his ears full of Bian Xin’s voice feeling wronged. 

Bian Nan had a bad temper. Except for his dad, he didn’t have a good attitude towards anyone. He could fight with her ge at any time, and even kicked her dog once. He was obviously a mistress’ son, he was arrogant at home and even made her mom cry angrily on many occasions. 

When he first entered Hangyun, Qiu Yi had heard of Bian Nan and had seen him several times. At that time, Hangyun was still a wide world and he hadn’t been involved in the various disputes between the two schools.

Bian Nan didn’t leave much impression on him at that time. He just thought he was a difficult person to deal with. But he was quite independent. The amount of times he appeared in group fights in the sports school wasn’t often. 

Bian Nan’s face passed before Qiu Yi’s eyes; his arrogant expression during fights and the concentrated look during the game, and added on an image of his awkward identity at home yet still being domineering. 

Though it wasn’t quite consistent with the big tiger who could play with Qiu Yan and whom Qiu Yan seriously regarded as a friend…

“Let’s continue.” Qiu Yi looked at the time which was exactly five minutes and interrupted Chen Tingting and Bian Xin, who were having a good conversation.

“Two more minutes…” Bian Xinyu held the cat and dragged her tone at Qiu Yi. 

“You can talk to the cat.” Qiu Yi glanced at her and opened the English book in front of Chen Tingting.

Bian Xinyu was very beautiful and usually not annoying. Qiu Yi has a good impression of her. However, although Qiu Yi could understand her feelings about the destruction and invasion of her family, he still didn’t want to hear all sorts of complaints about whatever things Bian Nan did buzzing around his ears.

He was tired every day, and had enough on his mind. After hearing these things, his mood wouldn’t climb forward. 

After tutoring Chen Tingting, Qiu Yi looked at the time. Without much delay, he began to pack up his things and prepare to go to the restaurant.

“Qiu laoshi,” Chen Tingting looked at him as she ate fish slices, “Do you have a girlfriend?”

Qiu Yi didn’t answer her and pointed to her exercise book, “Redo the wrong questions when you have time.” 

“If you don’t have a girlfriend, let me introduce one to you?” Chen Tingting said with a smile.

“Come on, the med school is right next to their school, there are plenty of beautiful girls, all soft and cute.” Bian Xin tutted a few times.

Qiu Yi’s phone rang. He took it out and glanced; it was sent by Qiu Yan with his dad’s cell phone. He proudly reported that he was preparing to make dinner for his dad.

“Maybe Qiu laoshi doesn’t like soft and cute!” Chen Tingting shook her hand at Qiu Yi, “Qiu laoshi, what do you think of Xinyu?”

“Hey!” Bian Xinyu shouted.

Qiu Yi returned the text and looked up at Bian Xinyu, “Quite good.”

“Of course I’m good!” Bian Xinyu blushed in an instant, lowered her head and buried her face in the cat’s fur, “Do you still need to say that!”

“Is such a girlfriend okay?” Chen Tingting said again.

“Are you crazy!” Bian Xinyu shouted, grabbing a cushion and throwing it over. 

“I’m leaving, remember to review.” Qiu Yi smiled as he took his bag before turning to open the door and went out.

As soon as he parked his bike at the restaurant, his phone rang.  Qiu Yi looked at it; It was Shen Tao.

“Mn?” He answered the phone. Shen Tao knew he had to work at night. Generally, he wouldn’t call if he had nothing to do.

“Be careful these two days,” Shen Tao said. “Pan Yifeng’s gang have been outside these two nights. They attacked us when the few of us were alone.”

“Oh,” Qiu Yi answered.

“Should we take action?” Shen Tao asked, “He’s not finished yet!”

“Wait until my break to talk,” Qiu Yi saw the head waiter come out the back door, “I’m hanging up.”

The most annoying thing about Pan Yifeng was that he would never appear alone. He would never pick fights alone and would always bring people when looking for trouble. On one hand, he could show off his boss style, and on the other hand, it was relatively safer. 

Although there was nothing to say, Qiu Yi couldn’t stand this quality of his right from the start. To put it bluntly, he was just afraid of death.

Qiu Yi said hello to the head waiter and ran into the restaurant fitting room to change to his uniform.

The environment in the restaurant was good, the quality of the customers were a little higher, and the salary wasn’t bad. In addition, he could adjust the working hours to evening shifts, and even had rotating days off. 

So although it’s not close to home and it was tiring to work all night, Qiu Yi was still willing to stay here to be at ease.

During closing time, Qiu Yi was relieved to see Xiao Man coming out of the office upstairs and leaving the restaurant.

He was a little afraid of bumping into Xiao Man on the road. It was torturous to sit in Xiao Man’s car all the way home while forcing topics to talk about even when there was none. 

After cleaning up the restaurant today, he was in a good mood and even accompanied the head waiter to smoke a cigarette at the back door. They chatted for a while, before he got on his bike and left the restaurant. 

“Could it be that he changed his route?” Wan Fei squatted under the shadow of a tree by the side of the road, gently tapping the rod in his hand on the ground. 

“Didn’t you watch him come from here before?” Bian Nan took out a cigarette and lit it. He didn’t smoke, but occasionally smoked one to fit the atmosphere.

“Yeah,” Wan Fei frowned, “Could he have left early? I said come early, but you have to go to the arcade…”

“You shut your mouth.” Bian Nan smoked and lowered his head to cough.

“Did you choke?” Wan Fei looked at him.

“Shut or not?” Bian Nan glanced at him.

Wan Fei stopped making a sound and stared at the possible direction Qiu Yi might appear from, as his fingertips bounced the rod up and down rhythmically. Bian Nan kicked the rod away, which made him want to shake his legs with the rhythm.

Another ten minutes later, someone on the other side of the road came by bike.

The green bike was very conspicuous under the street lights.

“Fuck, riding so fast! So energetic!” Bian Nan picked up the wooden stick at his feet. Qiu Yi approached them just as quickly.

When Qiu Yi was about ten meters away from them, Wan Fei jumped out of the shadows under the tree with the rod and rushed to the road, shouting, “Grandson!”

Qiu Yi was probably startled by the person who rushed out suddenly. He subconsciously pulled the brake and slowed down.

But he quickly saw what was going on. Without stopping the bike, he turned to the side and looked like he was going to accelerate around.

At this time, Bian Nan dashed out from the roadside. Before Qiu Yi accelerated his bike, he bent down and waved his hand violently. The wooden stick in his hand almost flew out against the ground and accurately penetrated the spokes of the front wheel of Qiu Yi’s bike. 

The bike sped ahead two meters with force before stopping. As Qiu Yi jumped out of the bike, Wan Fei swung the rod ruthlessly on his back.

Qiu Yi stumbled forward two steps, and knocked Wan Fei’s wrist back. He blocked Wan Fei’s second swing, then grabbed the rod from his hand.

Wan Fei was trying to move forward, but with Qiu Yi’s action, he was directly pounced on and fell to the ground with him. 

Although Wan Fei was brought down by Qiu Yi, when he fell to the ground, he pressed on Qiu Yi and punched him in the ribs.

Bian Nan went over and picked up the rod that was thrown aside. He wasn’t too hurried to help. Wan Fei was a sports student who fought all year round. Whether it was a sneak attack or one-on-one, under normal circumstances, Qiu Yi wouldn’t be his opponent.

But the circumstances weren’t normal today.

Qiu Yi, who had been hit on his back and punched heavily in his ribs, unexpectedly kneaded Wan Fei’s waist and lifted Wan Fei off himself.

Bian Nan didn’t expect such a scene. Today, he initially wanted to hold Wan Fei back tightly first to let him vent his anger, but Wan Fei had surprisingly suffered a loss. To his surprise, he lit the fiery rage he had towards Qiu Yi all at once.

Without hesitation, he swung the rod on Qiu Yi’s leg. 

Footnotes 

Brush the kitten’s fur: internet slang when you comfort a friend and tell him not to be angry, just like a kitten is angry, we touch its fur to make the kitten behave