Seizing Dreams [B1]

Ch 37 - Saw Blood

Translated by: DMlations/Zryuu
Edited by: Amelea and FistFullOfDollars

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After he finished washing the clothes, Yu Hao laid down on his bed and looked at the stars on the ceiling.

10:45pm, Zhou Sheng wasn't back yet. It was closing time for the dormitory building.

"Where are you going?"

Fu Liqun's phone screen reflected his face that was as handsome as Wang Leehom, and they looked especially alike from the side.

Yu Hao, "To buy cigarettes."

Fu Liqun, "But you don't smoke."

Ever since Fu Liqun broke up with Cen Shan, he would always speak in a flat tone that was neither sad nor happy, and it really resembled the male Siri voice on his phone.

"For coaxing someone." Yu Hao said, then put on his shorts, slippers and T-shirt. When he reached the second floor, he slid down the heating pipe.

The dormitory curfew wouldn't deter this group of sports students, especially Zhou Sheng, who was the first person to discover a way to get into the dormitory after 10pm.

Zhou Sheng was practically an expert at parkour - he would leap onto roofs and vault over walls as if he was walking on level ground; he jumped from the first floor to the anti-theft window, then did one more flip to reach the second floor. But Yu Hao couldn't do that. Zhou Sheng had tried to teach him the ropes several times before, but he could never get the hang of it. In the end, he could only change tack and teach him how to climb up the heating pipe while mocking him mercilessly.

Yu Hao bought a pack of Zhonghua for Zhou Sheng and stuffed it into his pocket. He remembered that Zhou Sheng's lighter ran out of fuel a few days ago. The dormitory had been filled with the sounds of arduous flicking, so he bought a lighter as well.

He suddenly felt an impulse to tear it open and smoke one.

On this spring night, there was a a big ruckus erupting on campus. Male hormones meant that wild wolves had been confined within the physical bodies of men, and they were walking around in the corridor half naked. They would occasionally let loose a few howls as they had nowhere to vent the energy from their youthful bodies, so they were all feeling immeasurably dejected.

Yu Hao walked along the trail behind the dormitory and gradually left the dormitory area. The world then seemed to quieten; on this intoxicating spring night, only cigarettes, alcohol and sex could provide consolation, but he didn't have even one of these three.

I need to get Zhou Sheng to smoke less. Yu Hao tore the packet of cigarettes open. He was sitting next to the field, and thought that smoking while he still needed to train for the Iron Man Triathlon wouldn't be good for his heart. It would be best if he could find an electronic cigarette to gradually replace real cigarettes. But Yu Hao liked the subtle scent of smoke on him - it mixed with Zhou Sheng's natural odor and this mixture had turned into his signature scent.

He took a cigarette out, ruminated for awhile, then put it back away.

Within the deathly silence, Yu Hao suddenly looked up. He seemed to have caught a glimpse of a figure walking straight through the garden behind the basketball court, towards the dormitory building outside the field.

Yu Hao frowned as he watched; that figure hardly made a sound as it moved parallel to the building, and soon disappeared behind the dormitory.

Yu Hao felt that something was wrong - that was the teacher's dormitory building. It didn't have a curfew, but those returning to the dormitory building wouldn't usually pay such special attention to the sound of their footsteps. Only one kind of person would try their best to not make a sound as they moved - someone who was trying to conceal something.