True Star (巨星) [DROPPED]

Vol 2 Ch 21: Confession

NOTE:

This translation belongs to the translators and proofreaders of Giraffe Corps.

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"You're what?" Tang Feng didn't know how to react. What did Lu Tian Chen just say? He was jealous?

"Do you need me to repeat it?" Lu Tian Chen drove calmly down the street, and said in the same calm manner, "I'm jealous."

"Oh." Tang Feng finally understood. He leaned back in his seat and mulled over the deeper meaning of Lu Tian Chen's words. "If it's too sour*, then you can stop at the next intersection and I'll go buy you some sweet bread."

*T/N: This is a pun that doesn't translate well. The common term used to describe jealousy in a relationship is 吃醋 (chī chù). Translated literally, it would mean "eating vinegar". The phrase "I'm jealous." could literally be written as "I'm eating vinegar." And since vinegar is sour, Tang Feng offers to buy Lu Tian Chen some sweet bread.

"I don't need any." It was another direct reply.

"Then what do you need?" Tang Feng laughed. He knew what Lu Tian Chen meant, but the president was hard to understand. He wasn't sure what Lu Tian Chen was trying to get at between the words.

Lu Tian Chen slowed down and parked near the sidewalk. He rested his hands on the steering wheel, but turned his head sideways to stare at Tang Feng. His dark eyes were like a pair of black holes, pulling Tang Feng's eyes toward him.

Tang Feng suddenly understood what was going on. He immediately shook his head and waved his hand in protest. "No, no, no. You're definitely joking. My god, please tell me you're just joking around."

"I don't like jokes," Lu Tian Chen said.

"That what are you doing right now?" Tang Feng could feel a headache coming on.

"I'm confessing." Despite all his wishes, Lu Tian Chen still uttered the two words he didn't want to hear.

Tang Feng covered his ears and sighed. What was going on these past few days? Was it national confessing week? He'd thought that Lu Tian Chen was merely curious and treated him well simply out of business appeal. Even if Lu Tian Chen did like him, it was the physical kind of like. Despite that, Lu Tian Chen hadn't made a move on him at all over these six months.

All right, Tang Feng had to admit he was wrong.

"You mean, you like me. Do you want to sleep with me or something?" Tang Feng asked directly out of curiosity.

"I won't sleep with people I'm not interested in," Lu Tian Chen said while his scrutinizing gaze drifted downwards.

Tang Feng felt as if Lu Tian Chen was undressing him with his eyes. After scanning over the actor's body, Lu Tian Chen nodded to himself, as if saying he was satisfied with what he saw.

"That just now...I felt that was sexual harassment."

"You can think of it that way." Lu Tian Chen's unperturbed acceptance made Tang Feng swallow any reply he might have made.

He opened the window for a breath of fresh air. Otherwise, he was going to burn up under Lu Tian Chen's intense gaze. Tang Feng rested his forehead on his hand and gazed at all the cars passing around them.

He wasn't a narcissist, but he had wondered about what he would do if Lu Tian Chen suddenly fell in love with him. Of course, when that thought had appeared in his mind, he laughed at himself for how ridiculous and unrealistic it sounded. But here he was, faced with a confession from Lu Tian Chen.