If you decide to learn a language, you have to learn it well! (/-`д´-)/ I want find time to learn japanese properly ahh
Chu Xun’s shortsightedness is quite serious.
Without his glasses, anything beyond a meter away looks blur to him.
Lin Yanchen: “…”
Chu Xun squinted and while still unable to see Lin Yanchen’s face, he laughed. “It’s okay. I know it was an accident.”
He turned blind and was like a handicap without his glasses. Feeling dizzy when he looked down, he said, “I want to get down, but I can’t see clearly. Give me a hand.”
Lin Yanchen half-hugged Chu Xun down the horse.
Chu Xun mused, “My glasses are so troublesome. I just changed them then they broke again.”
The stone pavement ahead was uneven. “I’ll hold your hand as we walk.” Lin Yanchen suggested.
Chu Xun firmly declared, “No.”
Not understanding why, Lin Yanchen asked, “Why? You were okay with holding hands last time and didn’t we hold hands last night?”
“That’s different. We held hands yesterday because we were taking a stroll. You want to do that now because you think I need to be supported. I believe I’m not that crippled.”
Lin Yanchen was really dumbfounded. “What’s there to be stubborn over this?”
Chu Xun walked forward carefully, the air around him becoming gentler.
Lin Yanchen looked at Chu Xun’s face. After taking off his glasses, Chu Xun looked much younger. The glasses made him looked serious. Lin Yanchen found Chu Xun better looking this way—frowning and looking troubled without his glasses. Chu Xun had a pair of beautiful eyes which were usually blocked by the lenses.
Lin Yanchen accompanied Chu Xun as the older walked at the speed ants crawl and commented, “Ah Xun, I think you look better without glasses. Why don’t you switch to wearing contact lenses?”
“Glasses are better for the eyes.” Chu Xun shook his head.
Chu Xun hadn’t finish his words when he almost fell due to that split second of distraction.
Though he wanted to pretend that nothing happened, Lin Yanchen’s hand reached out to him. “Ah Xun, can you just take it as we are strolling hand in hand?”
Chu XUn coughed twice and agreed pridefully, “Alright then.”
Lin Yanchen tried not to laugh.
Chu Xun placed his hand in Lin Yanchen’s palm.
Lin Yanchen silently slipped his fingers through the gaps between Chu Xun’s fingers, intertwining them with Chu Xun’s. Lifting their hands, he kissed the back of Chu Xun’s hand and got closer to Chu Xun until the older could see his face clearly. “Let’s go.” He announced with a bright smile.
Without his glasses, Chu Xun was vulnerable. Even though he didn’t say anything, he was instinctively relying on Lin Yanchen as they walked.
Lin Yanchen liked this kind of feeling. The usual Chu Xun was like a gust of wind. He couldn’t figure what the older was thinking at all.
Chu Xun meticulousness was as fine as dust. He naturally noticed how protective Lin Yanchen was being. Since young, everyone thought that he was strong and independent enough. He never cried, so everyone thought that he didn’t need care and protection. He used to think that Xiao Lin was just professional and yet, he was starting to suspect Xiao Lin’s true identity. However, if it isn’t for money, why is Xiao Lin being so good to him?
“Do you have anywhere you want to go? If not, there’s a lake over there. Want to go boating?” Lin Yanchen asked gently.
“I’ll bring you to make a pair of new glasses tomorrow.”
“Just make do with it tonight.”
Chu Xun pulled Lin Yanchen and asked with a frown, “Can’t we make a pair today?” When he broke his glasses during the accident in the snow valley, he got a new pair of glasses on the very day they were rescued.
“It’s already so late. The shops are closed.”
“Are you doing this on purpose?” Chu Xun suspected.
Lin Yanchen shamelessly denied, “Of course not. Why will I do this on purpose?”
Though that was what Lin Yanchen said, he was indeed doing it on purpose.
It was just a pair of glasses and not something as difficult as plucking stars and the moon from the sky. If he ordered for it, it would definitely be done in at most an hour.
But that would be too meaningless. He planned to take Chu Xun to the optical shop downtown to make his glasses tomorrow. Chu Xun would have no choice but to hold his hand tightly on the busy street. That would then be interesting.
The next day.
Lin Yanchen held Chu Xun’s hand and brought him to to make his glasses.
As expected, Chu Xun didn’t dare to walk on his own, obediently following Lin Yanchen’s lead. Lin Yanchen was secretly happy and felt that he finally got back on Chu Xun after being led by the nose by the older for quite a few days.
Sadly, this situation can only last for half a day. What a pity.
The Chu Xun last night was so cute. He even had to carefully make his way to the toilet with his vision blurred.
Putting on a new pair of glasses, Chu Xun’s world became clear in an instant, finally becoming vibrant again.
He called Lin Yanchen over and prepared to leave, but the younger said, “Make a pair of contact lenses too.”
“I said I don’t wear contact lenses.”
Lin Yanchen moved closer close to Chu Xun.
Chu Xun quickly stepped back as his old face turned red. “Don’t try to do anything funny in the public.”
Lin Yanchen held Chu Xun’s hand. “Take it as my apology. Ah Xun, I’ll make you a new pair of glasses and another pair contact lenses. You can decide whether or not you want to wear them. Just take them first then think about it. They are nothing valuable, just little things.”
As they were talking, a voice slightly surprised sounded beside them. “Lin Yanchen? Is that you?”
It came from behind Lin Yanchen. Chu Xun was looking in that direction and saw a girl, who was around Lin Yanchen’s age, with wine-red long hair, bright red lips and a beautiful face, walking over. Is she an acquaintance of Lin Yanchen?
Chu Xun panicked and quickly shook off Lin Yanchen’s hands, turning away to pretend he didn’t know the younger.
The girl confirmed her guess when he saw Lin Yanchen’s face and couldn't stop saying a bunch of things. “I haven’t seen you in a long time. Aren’t you supposed to be in China? I was still thinking of going there to look for you one day. You’re really too much for suddenly disappearing like that. Wasn’t it just acquired? We have been worried over you for so long…”
Lin Yanchen was so anxious that he was going to explode. Why is he so unlucky? He really wanted to just cover the woman’s mouth. “I have something on, so it’s not convenient now. I’ll look for you next time.” He quickly said in French.
The girl was taken aback when he suddenly switched to speaking in French, but she immediately answered, “Okay, but what’s wrong? Are you angry? Why are you suddenly speaking in French?”
“It’s none of your business,” Lin Yanchen said quite harshly.
The girl looked at Chu Xun, then at Lin Yanchen and understood. She smiled playfully. “Oh, I got it. You’re afraid your new boyfriend will misunderstand? This is just a coincidence. I didn’t mean it.”
Lin Yanchen had been paying attention to Chu Xun’s expression from the corners of his eyes, and the more he looked, the more he panicked. “Stop saying that. He… he’s not my boyfriend yet.”
“It’s my first time seeing you so concerned over a person. No wonder you never lasted long with you ex-girlfriends. Your preference has been different from the start. You didn’t need to hide it from us. I understand and support you…”
Lin Yanchen only said, “I really don’t have time to talk to you. Regarding this matter… Don’t tell anyone. You’re still not leaving?”
The girl said "okay" again and again.
The optical shop regained peace again after the girl was driven away by Lin Yanchen.
They collected the contact lenses too.
Lin Yanchen was jumpy and afraid that Chu Xun would ask him some things, but the older only said, “Let’s go back.”
Lin Yanchen thought about it and initiated the topic. “You’re not going to ask? She and I are just friends. We got to know each other when we were studying.
Chu Xun laughed and said, “Whatever friends you make has nothing to do with me.”
Lin Yanchen felt strangely uncomfortable. He can’t help but feel jealous when he sees Chu Xun being close with others, but to Chu Xun, who he is close to doesn’t matter.
He didn’t know if it was just him. He suddenly felt that the distance between them, which had shortened these days, ended up increasing again.
Chu Xun buried his emotions deep in his heart, so Lin Yanchen didn’t know that he could roughly understand French.
—— “He’s not my boyfriend.”
—— “Don’t tell anyone.”
As though a basin of cold water was poured down on his head, his heart turned cold.
Thinking about it, he found himself a joke. What is a dying person like him still expecting?
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