Addicted: Book One - The Inquietude of Youth

Chapter 179 - CAUGHT in the MOMENT!

Translator: Sae

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As the elevator door gradually cracked open, Gu Hai's footstep stagnant in a moment of shock. He stared ahead for a few seconds before quietly walking out. Bai Luo Yin was crouching in front of the apartment's door near a messy pile of cigarette butts. When he heard the sound of the elevator door starting to open, he raised his eyelids for a quick glimpse, then quickly let it hang low again. Noting that the cigarette hanging loosely in his hand was only half smoked, he took a deep breath of it and flung it on the ground with the rest.

Gu Hai crouched down close by. His eyes immediately swept toward Bai Luo Yin, taking all of him in. Keeping his sight only on him, an incomparably gentle and soft expression painted his face the color of warmth. It was as if he was a completely different person from the bastard that was causing trouble this afternoon.

"Why aren't you going in? Aren't you cold staying here?" As those words broke the silence, he held Bai Luo Yin's hands, feeling the soft skin beneath his own ice-cold like a piece of frozen iron bar. Distress and regret crawled up his face immediately as the cold sensation gripped his heart.

"Were you outside waiting for me the entire time?"

Needless to say, this question was outright ridiculous to ask. Isn't it obvious from the pile of cigarette butts on the ground!

"I just saw that message a moment ago." Gu Hai lifted Bai Luo Yin's chin, "If I'd seen it earlier, I would've come back immediately and make you something to eat. Did you eat yet?"

Bai Luo Yin remained silent as those words percolate through the chilly air. He looked attentively at Gu Hai, not daring to break away.

Just one look at Bai Luo Yin masked in this appearance, Gu Hai knew with certainty that he had not eaten yet.

"Come on, let's go in. I'll make something for you to eat."

Gu Hai stood up and tried to pull Bai Luo Yin along inside, but in the end, he couldn't move him. This beating heart that had frozen over for half a day had finally melted completely in this noiseless moment. It was like an iceberg that after proudly basking beneath the sun's brilliant light, at last, transformed into a pool of water.

In the dead of night, thinking of how Bai Luo Yin crouched here and waited for him to return home, he wondered, if......if he had not seen that message, would he have waited here for the entire night?

Letting the silent of this tender moment overtake him, Gu Hai's arms wrapped around Bai Luo Yin. As he embraced him, he could feel the cold air that swallowed his whole body from head to toe.

"Can we go inside?" Gu Hai pleaded softly, "If I act out like an asshole again, you can beat me right away. No matter how angry I get, I won't ever leave you home alone by yourself again."

Bai Luo Yin's stiff hands gently caressed Gu Hai's neck, allowing a slight chill to trace along the arteries beneath and flowing into the center of his heart.

"If you didn't come back, it would be meaningless for me to go through this door."

Gu Hai lovingly caressed Bai Luo Yin's hair, pushing a few strands to the side before his warm cheeks snuggled into Bai Luo Yin's cold and shivery face. His heart tightened and seared with remorse.

"In the future, I will never leave. Never again."

At this moment, an irrepressible sensation beckoned veiled feelings to cascade from Bai Luo Yin's trembling lips as he tells Gu Hai's the words that had long lie dormant at the bottom of his heart.