Wolf's Temptation (狼的爱恋) Chinese BL Translation by: 巫哲

You are a Good-For-Nothing Foodie

You are a Good-For-Nothing Foodie

Spider Lane has been around for a long time. So long that Xu Bei's elderly grandfather wouldn't have been around for Spider Lane's first days.

This is the oldest part of the city district in this small northern town. It has been said that there are many tales of sadness or joy, heroism or tragedies, and countless legends.

The town has no highlights, so the city hall has retained Spider Lane as "the most profound accumulation of culture in this city".

Knowing himself well enough, Xu Bei has always classified himself in the illiterate category, so with regards to Spider Lane, apart from being aware that this place is an exceptionally good hiding place, he lacks any other thoughts and feelings towards it.

He has a long-term rental room here, located in the deepest depths of Spider Lane.

There are innumerable alleys in Spider Lane, but no matter which way you enter from, the distance needed to go to Xu Bei's residence is very long. This distance is enough to make people who haven't studied the terrain with a single-minded devotion utterly and completely lose their way and get lost a dozen times over.

His room is on the second floor. Although it would be convenient to escape from the first floor, it is also easy to be cornered by people on both sides.

The second floor is much better. The front door must be cut off first. The building is three or four times older than Xu Bei. The staircase with wooden planks on the iron framework miserably creaks as soon as it is stepped on. It is like a warning alarm that is not affected by circuit shorts. As for the rear window, it is even more difficult to cut off. Below the rear window is a self-built not-up-to-code multifunctional toilet by the residents of the neighboring alleyway. In the event of an escape, you can climb out along beneath the edge of the window sill, but if you want to climb into the room, you have to climb over the roof of the toilet first, of which the weight of heavy snowfall could cause it to collapse. It would be a considerably big issue.

Xu Bei brought Lang Jiu all the way up those ear-piercingly creaking stairs. After walking a few steps, he felt something was a bit off, he came to a stop and looked back at Lang Jiu. Lang Jiu carried the suitcase in one hand and held the thirty Chinese burgers in the other. He was staring at him blankly.

"You don't make any noise on this staircase?" Xu Bei felt it hard to come to terms with. Lang Jiu's build looked to be about the same as his. Every time he went up the stairs, no matter how careful he was, he couldn't prevent the stairs from making noises, yet he only seemed to hear the sounds of himself walking on the stairs, "You keep going up."

Lang Jiu didn't quite understand what Xu Bei was getting at, but he nevertheless continued to walk upstairs obediently. Xu Bei stared for a while until he was certain. There was nothing abnormal about Lang Jiu's walking posture, but even under the circumstances of holding so many things, the staircase didn't make the tiniest peep.

"Have you ever practiced Qinggong before..." Xu Bei followed behind him, listening to the loud cries of his own steps, and felt that the disparity was a little too great, "How could there be no sound at all..."

(TN: It's a kind of martial art, it's a practice that makes the body lighter, reminiscent of parkour. It's a common occurrence in cultivation novels and movies.)

Lang Jiu came to a verdict. It really took a bit of effort on his part to comprehend Xu Bei's words, but he nevertheless seemed to wade in the middle of half-understanding. He raised his leg half-way up and heavily stomped down on the staircase. This time the staircase did not just merely issue an unceasing echoing creak, rather the entirety of its iron framework shook and a few decades worth of dust rained down in an endless storm.

Xu Bei was startled, holding the handrail of the staircase for a second, he couldn't handle the dust falling upon his head, and he flung himself forward, holding the leg of Lang Jiu regardless of any peril: "Holy fucking mother of God, that's not what I meant... you walking like that is just fine... don't stomp your feet... "

"En." Lang Jiu answered quite nonchalantly.

After entering the room, Xu Bei took off his coat, patting it down and thoroughly shaking it out repeatedly. With that single stomp of Lang Jiu's foot, the "accumulated culture" of his grandfather's generation inside the building was cast down all over upon his body from head to toe.

Lang Jiu didn't walk through the door unscathed either. He tossed the things he carried away and then he began to study the Chinese burgers held in a paper wrapper. After studying it for a while didn't bear any results, he just opened his mouth and took a bite into his mouth, paper wrapper and all.

Xu Bei sighed. In the past, he took the Chinese burger from his hand and undid the paper wrapping: "Do Chinese burgers with the shell taste good?"

"En."

"Well, you show-off, take your clothes off after you finish eating this, they're all gray."

"En."

Xu Bei turned around and walked into the kitchen. The room was unoccupied for a while. The central heating was sufficient, but there was no hot water.

There was no dust in this room. It seemed that the landlord's granddaughter would still come up to tidy it regularly. Xu Bei didn't mind her coming in. There were no other personal belongings inside this room except for a few changes of clothes. The matter of the landlord helping the tenants to keep their rooms tidy at no cost was a little... Xu Bei smiled, it's a pity the girl was much too young.

When he came out of the kitchen after boiling water, he saw Lang Jiu, who had undressed according to the instructions he delivered, all his tears had almost poured down at once: "My son, ai, what are you doing!"

"Undressing." Lang Jiu replied very bluntly, throwing his clothes to the ground, smiling contentedly, exposing a canine tooth and a dimple on the right side of his face.

Xu Bei looked at the clothes that had all been thrown to the floor and felt a little headache set in. He held the door frame and resolved to compose himself, he took in a deep breath, and a yell broke out: "Then you don't have to fucking take it all off!"

"Comfortable." Lang Jiu kicked at the clothes under his feet, turned his bare body around, took a Chinese burger and started eating. One disappeared with only four mouthfuls and then took another one to continue on.

"If you really were my son, I really might have already strangled you to death and make your mother give birth to another one," Xu Bei slowly walked over to pick up the clothes off the ground and handed Lang Jiu's underwear to him, "I'm well aware you have a nice figure and are well-developed, but a person is a person, and clothing is the bare minimum. At least put on underwear."

Lang Jiu swallowed the bun inside his mouth all in one go, wrinkling his eyebrows at the underwear, refusing, then took the pants from Xu Bei's other hand and started to put them on. As soon as Xu Bei saw his actions, he was a bit happy. He realized Lang Jiu's meaning and laid down on the bed with a smile: "Aiyo, son, ai, Huhu, ai, you don't like to wear underwear, do you? I didn't expect you to prefer going commando, ah... "

And just as Xu Bei was cheering up, the stairs outside the door suddenly made a noise.

He immediately stopped smiling and listened carefully. The footsteps were a bit heavy, Xu Bei cursed in his mind, fuck! He jumped up from the bed in one bound, ran a few steps to stand beside the door, lifted a piece of the wooden floor, took out a machete from below, squatted by the door, and at the same time making a shushing gesture at Lang Jiu.

Lang Jiu held half a Chinese burger in his mouth and had his pants halfway put on. Upon seeing his directives, he immediately settled where he stood.

This person walked very slowly, and each foot went down heavily, accompanied by the wailing of the stairs, they gradually approached Xu Bei's door.

Xu Bei clenched the blade in his hand, he was a little baffled. He had just entered his room and paid attention behind him the whole journey, there wasn't anyone following after them. How could someone come up...

Moreover, this person is quite remarkable, the sound of their footsteps was not covered up at all. They just walked up to the door and got straight to twisting the door lock. Xu Bei was shocked. Who the fuck is this, ah!

The lock did not open after some time, and the person outside thus whapped directly on the door with the palm of their hand, shouting, "Did you come back, Xiao Bei-ge!"

"Fucking hell!" Xu Bei, after squatting down on the ground then hurriedly jumped up, hid the blade back under the floorboard, and then turned to Lang Jiu, who was still standing completely still, shouting in a hushed tone, "Quickly put your fucking pants on!"

After seeing Lang Jiu properly fasten his pants, Xu Bei opened the door.

"Xiao Bei-ge, you really came back, ah," the person outside the door hopped in, holding four large thermos bottles in their hands. It's not so surprising that they had such a strong inner force as they went up the stairs. "Gosh, why didn't you tell us you came back, ah? I'll send over some hot water for you, ah!"

Xu Bei closed the door: "I just walked through the door, you were at my heels."

"My grandpa heard your voice and said you were back. I'm unbelievably happy. I will deliver you the water immediately. Why didn't you open the door, ah? I was just about to take out the key to open it..."

The excited little girl in the blazing red down-filled jacket before his eyes was the landlord's granddaughter. It was this River Snail Girl who cleaned the house for him at regular intervals. The River Snail Girl looks very sweet, but unfortunately, she is far too young, she had just entered her first year of high school and belongs to the category of comparatively lagging behind in development. Xu Bei has no interest.

(TN: The River Snail Girl is a Chinese folktale. The reference is that the River Snail Girl would sneak into a house and clean it.)

But... it's around the same age as Lang Jiu. This may be an opportunity to let Lang Jiu come in contact with a young lady, and save him from holding in his enthusiasm to take care of his body.

"Oo, is this your little brother, so handsome, ah," The River Snail Girl's mood was a little bit excited and before waiting for Xu Bei's introduction, she noticed Lang Jiu, who was standing in the room and staring at her, and kindly reached out her hand to him, "Hello, my name is Chen Xiaoyu, I live just downstairs."

Lang Jiu seemed a tad overwhelmed. His mouth was still bitten down on a Chinese burger, his hands had yet to move off of the waistband of his pants from buttoning them, he merely looked at Chen Xiaoyu.

"People shake hands with other people, then hold for a bit." Xu Bei said off from the side and even sent a meaningful glance over. Lang Jiu hadn't touched anyone else before and he understood even less about these things. Xu Bei was a little worried that he would have some sort of uncalled for reaction.

"Don't want to." Lang Jiu answered very curtly and at the same time, he frowned, his face a little impatient.

Both Xu Bei and Chen Xiaoyu were stunned. Chen Xiaoyu's hand was still held out, and she didn't know if she ought to lower it or continue holding it out. It was a bit awkward. Xu Bei cursed him out as an asshole in his heart, walked over, and took Chen Xiaoyu's hand: "Don't mind him, he's grumpy..."

Immediately after saying this, Lang Jiu's eyes fell on Xu Bei's hand. After seeing his hand holding Chen Xiaoyu's, the expression in his eyes suddenly changed.

Xu Bei, who was permeated with repulsion and hostility, had seen this before. He had originally used this gaze to scare Zhu Xiaolei off of him.

At that time Lang Jiu was still a little smelly wolf, but now he is a man who is almost the same size as him, and he can shake the staircase to the point of its trembles traveling down from the top to the bottom with one stomp. Even though his face still looks childish, the expression in his eyes has already changed to quite a bit of murderous-intent.

Xu Bei's heart sank a bit and wanted to let go of Chen Xiaoyu's hand, but before he had time to make his move, Lang Jiu had already rushed forward, directly grabbed Xu Bei's hand and flung it aside, and then yanked him over to his side.

Xu Bei couldn't be considered that strong, but he hadn't gotten through childhood till now solely by fooling around. As long as his opponent wasn't packing a gun, he won't be afraid of crossing anyone on a one-on-one basis. He hadn't expected to be yanked over by Lang Jiu into a stumble, nearly knocking him down to his knees. He reached out his hand and grabbed hold of Lang Jiu's pants, steadying himself

"What are you doing!" Xu Bei got a little angry and firmly pulled his hand away. Even if it was only the two of them, in front of Chen Xiaoyu, wasn't Lang Jiu's strange reaction looking to give him trouble!

Lang Jiu said nothing, his eyes locking on Chen Xiaoyu.

"I... I was... what did I do wrong...?" Chen Xiaoyu was seriously frightened by Lang Jiu's response. He didn't relax his expression for a long time, the right words were too hard to find.

Lang Jiu still didn't say a word and suddenly raised his hand. Chen Xiaoyu's neck flinched in fear, but Lang Jiu simply lowered his head and sneezed facing the ground.

"Laozi will settle accounts with you in a bit, don't you dare try and make a move again!" Xu Bei threw a very harsh sentence at Lang Jiu and did not know whether or not the cruel words would have any effect, then switched over to a smiling expression and walked over to Chen Xiaoyu, "The two of us had a quarrel on our way home. He's holding onto some residual anger, scaring you..."

"It's nothing, I..."

"You go back first, thank you for bringing me water," Xu Bei moved to raise his hand and place it on Chen Xiaoyu's shoulder in order to push her to the door, but hesitated for a second and didn't touch her, "You go back first and let your grandpa know that I've finished tidying up here and I'll go down looking to play chess with him."

"Okay," Chen Xiaoyu was still really young and she promptly got excited again when she heard this. Just before going out the door, she even turned around to look at Lang Jiu and waved her hand, "Handsome, please come down in a bit, while Xiao Bei-ge and my grandpa have fun playing chess come down and have some tea."

Xu Bei wanted to use his eyes to pass on a warning to Lang Jiu that forbade him from continuing to be rude, but unexpectedly, Lang Jiu surprisingly answered: "Okay."

His tone was fairly tranquil.

Chen Xiaoyu hopped on downstairs, Xu Bei closed the door, locked it, and turned to point his finger at Lang Jiu: "Come, your Dad has made you very happy. Now the two of us can settle that matter from a moment ago."

Lang Jiu's expression towards Bei expressed a manner that should be something like being unable to understand. He pulled his hand back, snatched a Chinese burger from the table, and walked over quite happily.

"What the hell are you all giddy for, ah?" Xu Bei's anger was drawn from multiple sources. He grabbed the Chinese burger from his hand with lightning speed and took a bite. "I'm asking you, just what is your deal? What a dickish attitude you have when people treat you so courteously! "

Lang Jiu said nothing, turned around, and took another Chinese burger, returned to face Xu Bei and took a bite.

The words that then followed from Xu Bei had confused him so much that he didn't know how to proceed: "You're just a good-for-nothing foodie! Can you do anything else besides fucking eat..."

"En."

"Forget it," Xu Bei suddenly lost his will to fight and sunk down into the sofa. "Son, I tell you, you can't be like that, you can't have that attitude towards girls... you can't have that attitude towards anyone, it's common courtesy to shake hands and whatnot... "

"En."

"Don't just grunt, you turned into a person, you have to follow the human way of life. I don't hammer down too hard about wearing clothes, but for human social contact..." Xu Bei droned on for a long time, and suddenly found Lang Jiu hadn't been eating anything, he was holding a Chinese burger with his complexion going a bit pale.

"What's wrong?"

"It hurts." Lang Jiu looked at him, his eyebrows furrowed together.

"Where is it hurting?" Xu Bei jumped up, Lang Jiu's appearance made him somewhat nervous, even his lips were white, "You didn't overeat did you, is it a stomachache?"

"Bones."

En, there is something wrong with Lang Jiu.