Addicted: Book One - The Inquietude of Youth

Chapter 193 - The SELFLESS CITIZEN!

Translators: Sae & Sienna

Editors: Sae & Alec

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"You're doing it all wrong. Look at me."

Gu Hai stood up and facing the magnificent sea that surged forth against the delicate sands, he shouted loudly.

"My name is Gu Hai, male, 18 years old, from Beijing. The person sitting down beside me is my wife. Two days ago, last year, we fell in love with each other and made it official. It's been a year already since our journey together started! Despite the ups and downs and the constant disasters thrown at us, we will not surrender or hesitate to advance bravely."[1]

To his side, Bai Luo Yin watched as the plumes of Gu Hai's breath billowed out and quickly dissipated into the air. The voice was unexpected. It was loud, with an agreeable trace of huskiness and a hint of more power than the once frail body could produce. Hearing it in such close proximity to him, Bai Luo Yin wanted to bury his entire being into the sand.

After divulging this supposed secret, a sense of relief also tugged at Gu Hai's mind. A small smile drew back the corner of his lips as he looks down at Bai Luo Yin with provocation. "Do you dare?"

The underlying meaning to those three words were, 'are you as bold as I am?'

"Why wouldn't I dare to?" Bai Luo Yin also stood up and shouted loudly, "My name is Bai Luo Yin, male, 18 years old. My family lives in Beijing, Xicheng district on the most brilliant Lane 48. I am a third-year student studying at Beijing X High School, Class 27, who's also a rather bad youth. Standing beside me is my wife. After enduring his shameless harassment, out of compassion for his mental state, I took pity and decided to marry him into my family. Since my father-in-law does not agree to us being together, this marriage has yet to be settled. But, I am wholeheartedly devoted to my wife's love. Regardless of whether he will continue to have this mental illness or not, I will never betray or leave him in this lifetime!"

Gu Hai immediately started to laugh. The laugh was not only in his voice, but it also welled in his eyes, in the way his face changed into that vision of relaxed joy and unrestrained mirth. Yet, truly, it wasn't only in his face either. His laugh came from within the core of his being.

You little bastard, you got me.

Never one to back down from a challenge, Gu Hai went on to shout, "Gu Wei Ting, I'm telling you, even if you send a whole army troop with thousands of men to hunt us down, I will still say those same words from before. If I firmly believe in someone, no one can even think of changing it! If I firmly believe in a relationship, no one can even think of tearing it apart! If I firmly believe in these feelings, no one can even think of destroying them!"

"Gu Wei Ting!......" Bai Luo Yin shouted those words but then he halted.

Raising his head, Gu Hai turned to look at him with great expectations.

"I fucked your son!"

Gu Hai ground his teeth as his big hand quickly reached out to pinch the back of Bai Luo Yin's neck. Bai Luo Yin burst into a spell of smiles before laughter rang out from within his throat. The laugh came from him like a newly blossomed flower – timid at first then it grew a bit at a time. Gu Hai watched him attentively. The other boy wasn't done yet though. He could tell, from the way Bai Luo Yin rolled his eyes back to the sky and half bit his lips. It was all too apparent, from deep inside his chest came a great shaking motion that caused his facial muscles to grow tight. Gu Hai's brows rose, waiting.

In moments, Bai Luo Yin's laugh was more like fully blossomed flower petals being thrown into the brilliant sky then falling around on everyone nearby with unrestrained gales that debilitated him to a stomach-gripping breathless picture of glee. Gu Hai wanted to maintain the sternness sheathing from his face—since after all he was the one being laughed at—but before long, his mouth twitched upwards and he too fell into a spell of laughter.