The Silly Shou Transmigrated Into a Book - Chapter 17

Seeing that Gu Qiuyi wasn’t replying, Kou Huai grew unhappy. “Where’d you go? What are you doing now?”

Gu Qiuyi ignored Kou Huai’s messages. He exited the chat to ask Jiang Hansa for Zou Shu’s full name, then went back to answer Chu Yueguang’s question. He added: “Luckily I ran into Brother Kou Huai today; he helped me out of that jam.”

Chu Yueguang didn’t expect to hear Kou Huai’s name. He remembered that Kou Huai liked both men and women, and he had just broken up today… Chu Yueguang had a rather unpleasant association. He slowly typed: “Are you and him close?”

Just as he finished typing and was about to hit send, he felt it was too obvious. Even if it was just curiosity, it was too blatant; it would be better to ask Kou Huai directly.

Thinking of this, Chu Yueguang deleted the text, turned around, and asked Kou Huai: “Who is this ‘sweet pea’ you mentioned?”

Kou Huai was still feeling annoyed by Gu Qiuyi’s lack of reply. Seeing Chu Yueguang looking for him, he didn’t think much of it and replied casually: “It’s that mental case I told you about before. Seeing him today—man, let me tell you, his looks are absolute perfection. He’s got a baby face, looks really young. They say the eyes are the window to the soul; one look at those eyes and I can tell he’s definitely never been in a relationship.”

Chu Yueguang: “…” He didn’t say anything, but he suddenly felt a bit irritable.

Kou Huai continued to chatter away: “But the kid acts a lot and is quite narcissistic. I asked him to be my boyfriend and he actually ignored me. Though, he does seem to really love money…”

Chu Yueguang expressionlessly blocked him.

Kou Huai stared at the red exclamation mark on his screen, stunned. He quickly called Chu Yueguang. Chu Yueguang picked up. “Hey, Chu Yueguang! Why the hell did you block me?”

Chu Yueguang said, “Your love life is too messy. I’m going to tell your parents.”

Kou Huai: “???” Kou Huai cried out in protest: “How am I messy? When I look for a partner, I only go as far as holding hands and kissing at most. I’ve never dared to go ‘full-contact.’ I’m nothing like Li Yu and the others…”

Chu Yueguang hung up on him.

Kou Huai looked at his phone gloomily. What the hell was that?

After hanging up, Chu Yueguang looked through the messages Gu Qiuyi had sent him. Seeing the name of the person who bullied him, it looked familiar. After thinking for a while, he remembered who it was: the only son of the Zou family in the East District.

He vaguely remembered hearing about this person’s deeds, which were quite “over the line” even for normal people. The Zou family’s excessive doting was the capital that allowed him to be lawless.

Chu Yueguang slowly typed: “How did Zou Shu bully you?”

Gu Qiuyi: “Actually, it wasn’t really bullying me. He seemed to have bullied a classmate of mine before. When we ran into him today, he bullied my classmate, and I couldn’t stand it, so I kicked him. He wanted to hit me, but luckily Brother Kou Huai was nearby, so I ran over to ask for help. Brother Kou Huai is so nice—even after I said those things about him before, he was still willing to help me, waaaaah.”

Chu Yueguang: “…”

Chu Yueguang wanted to ask if the boy actually knew Kou Huai had no good intentions and was trying to hit on him, but saying such things would be far too overstepping. Besides, the boy might not be unaware—after all, Kou Huai was handsome, his family background was top-tier, and he was surrounded by plenty of men and women. He changed partners frequently and usually skipped the “ambiguous flirting” phase to directly ask people to be his partner.

Chu Yueguang remembered what Kou Huai had just said—he really had already asked the boy to be his boyfriend.

The feeling of irritability in Chu Yueguang’s heart spiked. His finger tapped the screen for a long time without deciding what to reply.

Just then, Gu Qiuyi sent another message: “But Brother Kou Huai asked me to be his boyfriend and I refused. Brother, you won’t blame me for that, will you?”

The moment Gu Qiuyi sent this, a string of “The other party is typing…” appeared at the top of the chat box.

Gu Qiuyi waited patiently for a while before finally receiving a: “Why would I blame you?”

Gu Qiuyi typed back quickly: “Because you and Brother Kou Huai are friends, aren’t you? If I refuse Brother Kou Huai, Brother won’t think I’m being ungrateful, right?”

Seeing this, the corners of Chu Yueguang’s mouth tilted up slightly. He replied: “You did the right thing.”

He wasn’t the type to speak ill of his friends behind their backs, but he could manage a reminder: “He has many exes. Don’t get involved with him.”

It was hard to say he had no selfish motives, but he chose to ignore them.

Gu Qiuyi: “I know! He even had a girlfriend today, yet he told me he was already single. He changes partners so fast, just like changing clothes.” He paused, then suddenly asked Chu Yueguang curiously: “Brother, have you ever been in love?”

Chu Yueguang stared at this sentence. He put down his phone and looked into the distance for a full minute before picking it up to reply: “No.”

Gu Qiuyi: “What a coincidence, me neither! Then, what kind of boys does Brother like?”

Chu Yueguang’s eyelids twitched. He stared at Gu Qiuyi’s profile picture—how did he know my sexual orientation?

Chu Yueguang’s orientation was indeed male, but he had never exposed this fact. Even Kou Huai didn’t know.

Chu Yueguang’s mind methodically went through any past possibilities of exposure. He opened his emojis and sent a picture with no text—just a serious-looking cat face.

Gu Qiuyi looked at the image, tilted his head, and typed: “Does Brother not want to say? It’s okay! I’m just curious. If Brother doesn’t want to say, then don’t say it; I won’t mind. Though, even if Brother likes boys, you definitely wouldn’t like someone like me. Waaaaah, they all say I’m ‘sissy.’ I’m probably very unpopular.”

Chu Yueguang: “Who says you’re sissy?”

Gu Qiuyi: “My classmates say I am. I’m clearly not sissy! Brother, if you saw me, you’d know. I’m just a cute boy. I have everything a man has. I’m not sissy.”

Chu Yueguang comforted: “I don’t think you’re sissy.” He paused, then added: And, you really are very cute. He didn’t send the last part because it seemed too ambiguous. He was a serious person; he didn’t engage in “unserious” chatting.

Gu Qiuyi: “Right, right! Brother thinks so too, right? If Brother saw me, he definitely wouldn’t think I’m sissy anymore.”

Chu Yueguang suspected the boy was “baiting” him into a meeting, but then felt he might be misinterpreting things. If the boy really meant that, he’d have to think about how to refuse. Meeting after only a month of chatting was against his principles.

However, thinking about how Kou Huai had already seen Gu Qiuyi made a subtle emotion rise in his heart.

After weighing the two, Chu Yueguang chose to send money. He transferred 10,000 yuan to Gu Qiuyi.

Gu Qiuyi: “??” Gu Qiuyi: “Brother, why are you giving me money again? Didn’t I tell you not to?”

Chu Yueguang: “Kou Huai helped you out, and I did nothing.”

Seeing this, Gu Qiuyi sent a blushing emoji. “Brother, don’t be like that. You’ve already been so good to me! Anyway, thank you for your kindness.”

Chu Yueguang: “If Kou Huai pesters you, you can come to me.”

Gu Qiuyi agreed wholeheartedly. He didn’t accept the money, but thinking of Kou Huai, he curiously exited to see what Kou Huai had sent.

He nearly fainted when he saw the screen. A massive wall of transfers met his eyes. Counting from top to bottom, Kou Huai had transferred 220,000 yuan.

Kou Huai: “Don’t you love money? How about I keep (sponsor) you? How does 300,000 a month in pocket money sound?” Kou Huai: “Don’t worry, I won’t do anything to you. My family is strict, they don’t let me mess around. Just be my boyfriend—we’ll just date, hold hands, stuff like that.” Kou Huai: “Why haven’t you replied to ‘Gege’? You called me ‘Kou Huai Gege’ so sweetly when I was helping you earlier. Now that I’ve stood up for you, you’re turning your back on me?” Kou Huai: “Let me tell you, that Zou Shu is not a good person. If I don’t protect you, he might retaliate. Only ‘Gege’ can help you. Besides, ‘Gege’ isn’t bad-looking, right? 187 cm tall, six-pack abs—being your boyfriend would give you so much face.” Kou Huai: “I’ll assume you’re in the bathroom. I’ll wait 30 minutes. If you don’t reply, this opportunity is gone.”

Gu Qiuyi: “…” His fair face flushed red. I have to control myself! Small money is fine, but big money is absolutely not!!

He remembered a famous quote: “She was still too young then, and did not know that life’s gifts always come with a price tag hidden in the shadows. — Stefan Zweig”

If he was greedy enough to take this money now, he’d surely be not far from being “conquered” by Kou Huai in the future!

Gu Qiuyi painfully suppressed the demonic urge and replied to Kou Huai: “I don’t want it!”

Kou Huai: “?”

Gu Qiuyi continued to type tearfully: “Brother Kou Huai, I really don’t want to date you. I’m still young, I’m only seventeen! I’m still a minor! You’ll be arrested by the police for dating me!”

Kou Huai: “…Uh.”

Gu Qiuyi: “And I don’t have those feelings for you. I see you as a brother. I can’t lie to you.”

Kou Huai: “…” Kou Huai immediately transferred 500,000 yuan. “Now? I’ll give you one more chance to rephrase your sentence.”

Gu Qiuyi: “…” Gu Qiuyi: “Do you think I’m saying no because you didn’t give me enough money?”

Kou Huai: “Aren’t you?”

Gu Qiuyi: “…” Sinful rich people!

Gu Qiuyi dug out his exam papers and took a photo for him. “Brother Kou Huai, I really don’t have the time or energy to date you. My grades are so bad, waaaaah.”

Kou Huai saw the huge double-digit scores on every paper and his head filled with question marks. Is this a score a human can get?? He was also a bad student, but even at his worst, he could get a passing grade. This person was getting 30s or 40s? One paper even had a 28??

Kou Huai was finally certain: This person was a genuine idiot!!

Gu Qiuyi: “My goal now is to get into a good university. If I can get into college, I might consider it.”

Kou Huai: “…”

Gu Qiuyi asked as if remembering something: “Brother Kou Huai, you’re a college student, so high school knowledge should be easy for you, right?” “Could I possibly… hehe.”

Gu Qiuyi didn’t finish the sentence, but the implication was clear. Kou Huai interrupted him immediately: “NO!!! GOODBYE!”

Gu Qiuyi: “?” Gu Qiuyi: “Brother, I didn’t even finish. Why are you refusing me?”

Kou Huai said with a voice full of world-weariness: “Because ‘Gege’ knows you too well. You want to trap ‘Gege’ into doing hard labor, don’t you?”

Gu Qiuyi: “…”

Kou Huai: “Sorry, ‘Gege’ is also a bad student. You don’t have this chance.” He even sent a grinning yellow emoji.

Gu Qiuyi wasn’t counting on him anyway; he was just scaring him. “Fine then, forget it. Brother Kou Huai, we aren’t destined. I’m already stupid enough; I don’t want to find a partner who is also an idiot.”

Kou Huai: “…”

Gu Qiuyi said earnestly: “Brother Kou Huai, there is no future for two idiots.”

Kou Huai: “…” FUCK!