You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 119 Part 1

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.

You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 119 Part 1

“Threatening people to replace them with substitutes…...Is this how you deal with this?”

Tong Yao lifted her hand to push Lu Sicheng’s face away: “Go tell them yourself if that’s what you’re going to say. I won't pass something so offensive to them.”

“Then what should I say?”

“Use more loving care.”

“They aren’t you.” Lu Sicheng said with a matter-of-fact tone of voice: “Who has that much loving care to spare? It would be a waste to use loving care on them.”

“You haven’t really given me much loving care either. You stood behind me while I was playing ranked and said I was doing this wrong or that wrong, or I had bought weird items, or I moved like a handicap person. Is all that words of loving care? Do you really know what loving care means, I truly doubt it.” Tong Yao pinched the tip of Lu Sicheng’s straight nose: “Sometimes, you even get Ming god to join you at taunting the team. Ming god wasn’t even interested, do you know?”

Lu Sicheng gave her words some serious thought, then said matter-of-factly: “It’s slander. I’ve never done anything like that.”

Tong Yao pushed him away to sit up.

But she was pressed back down into the bed.

“What are you doing?”

“Giving you loving care?”

As he was speaking, he lowered his head to bite Tong Yao’s neck. He would always bite the same spot. Whenever the mark on her neck disappeared, he would bite there again…...Tong Yao lifted up the blanket and pushed him away. She got up on her own and gathered the blanket to push onto his face: “Better not say things like replacing them with substitutes. What if you make things worse for those two chuunibyous?”[1]

“I won’t say it if they behave themselves.” Lu Sicheng responded, muffled under the blanket: “Take your hands away. It’s stuffy.”

Tong Yao released her hands. When Lu Sicheng lifted up the blanket, Tong Yao wiped her face with her sleeve and turned around to walk out of the room-- --When she opened the door, she heard the door to the base open at the same time. Tong Yao took a look from the railing and found Old Cat had come back. But he didn’t go up the stairs to his own room. He threw the key onto his desk, then went directly onto the couch and closed his eyes. The two cats rushed to jump onto his tummy……

“Old Cat.” Tong Yao stretched her head out from the second floor: “Go back to your room to sleep.”

After saying so, Tong Yao felt that she was like a bystander who was urging an upset  daughter-in-law who had run away from home to go home to sleep. Her tone of voice sounded very much like a cautious busy body.

Old Cat opened his eyes, turned to the other side, then patted the heads of the two cats while curling up on the couch. He sounded aggrieved: “I’m not. I’m sleeping here tonight.”

Old Cat did sound like someone who was upset.

Tong Yao: “......”

She was worried.

……

The next day, they had their skirmish with CK in the afternoon.

Old K had returned to his room quite early last night, but he didn’t come out of his room until it was almost time for the skirmish. Old Cat on the other hand resisted going back to his room to wash up. In the end, he had to use the disposable toothbrush the base had prepared for the staff who sometimes had to stay up all night working at the base……

After Old K came out of the room, Old Cat then went up to get a change of clothes in his room. When the two of them crossed paths on the stairs, Tong Yao felt the whole base was depressingly quiet……

Old Cat held his head high and walked by Old K with his eyes looking steadily forward.

-- --Watching that, Tong Yao had the feeling that today’s skirmish would be a goner.

The result was just as she had expected.

[1]: 中二病, a Japanese term that describes a person who manifests delusional behavior, particularly thinking that one has special powers that no other person has.

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.