Chapter 42 - Rabbit Nest Adventures (2/2)

Zhong Yan looked up at him, and answered dazedly, “Okay.”

Adrian jumped down and landed nimbly beside Zhong Yan. The kit turned its head over in an attempt to nuzzle him, but it was pushed away with disapproval.

“This rabbit is too stupid.” As he said that, he pulled Zhong Yan up from the ground. “I’ll pull you up.”

“Wait, hold on. The blankets were quite big so I didn’t use all of them earlier, we have two left.” Zhong Yan motioned Adrian towards the side.

The whole nest was full of bright colors like red, yellow, green, and blue; Adrian could hardly see where the leftover blankets were.

“We can bring it back and I can use it, I was just thinking of changing mine anyway,” said Zhong Yan.

“What’s wrong with your current one?”

“Didn’t Suster say during dinner…” Zhong Yan went on awkwardly, “Didn’t he say that was the set he used when he slept at your house? I don’t want to use the same set of beddings as him.”

Adrian grunted, “He said the one he used were the spares in my house.”

“He said you only had one set of spares, so shouldn’t the one on my bed be…”

“Yeah, there’s only one set of spares, and I’m using it. The room you’re sleeping in is my room, my bed, and my blankets.”

Zhong Yan looked at Adrian in disbelief, and stuttered, “What…”

“If you don’t like it, then bring one over. Hurry up.” Saying that, Adrian was going to grab the remaining two blankets, but he was stopped by Zhong Yan.

“Well…it’s quite troublesome to take it up, we still have to climb up the rabbit’s back, so…let’s not.”

“Can’t you make up your mind? Get up if you’re not getting them.”

Adrian crouched down to allow Zhong Yan to step on his shoulder, then he stood up and sent Zhong Yan up by supporting his legs. Meanwhile, he grabbed the rabbit’s fur and easily climbed up himself.

“Let’s go,” he said to Zhong Yan, who did not dare to move. “I’m here, you won’t fall.”

Zhong Yan nodded. He walked unsteadily over the kit’s back. It really was reassuring to have Adrian right behind him. They bent down to cross through the door of the rabbit’s nest. Zhong Yan looked at the ground and said anxiously, “…How do we get down?”

Adrian jumped down first. The grass was not as soft as the blankets in the nest, but he rolled out of it and reduced the impact. It did still hurt a little. An indiscernible frown crossed Adrian’s brows, that bit of pain would not bother him; but if it was Zhong Yan’s soft and tender body, it might…

“Why don’t you move a ladder over?” said Zhong Yan from on top of the rabbit.

“No need, just jump. I’ll catch you.”

Adrian spread his arms wide and raised his head to look at him, “Come.”

Zhong Yan took a breath. It took so much effort for him to struggle through life till he was this old. For him to get a foot up in the world, he was a cautious person who cherished his life; but at this moment, he put away all the safety concerns to the back of his mind. Adrian was standing in the grass beneath the starry sky, looking at him with his arms wide open, telling him to jump.

So he jumped.

The wind whistled in his ear while Adrian’s face grew bigger in front of his eyes. In less than a second, he slammed into Adrian’s arms, and the two fell onto the grass.

That free fall caused Zhong Yan’s heart to beat wildly, and he was only able to snap out of it after a few seconds, only to realize that Adrian was stuck beneath him.

“Sorry.” After saying that, Zhong Yan tried to get up, but realized only after he moved that Adrian’s arms were clenched tightly around him.

And strangely enough, Adrian seemed to have realized this even later than he did. He jerked his hands back abruptly and said under his breath, “Get up!”

Zhong Yan quickly got up and wanted to reach out to pull up Adrian, but Adrian sat up and ignored the hand that was reached out to him, and instead said, “Go inside, your work’s done here.”

“Are you not going in?” Zhong Yan asked in confusion.

“I’ll go in after making the door wider.” Adrian looked at him rather impatiently, “Go on, hurry up.”

Zhong Yan was starting to get anxious after seeing no attempts from him to stand up, so he crouched in front of him and asked, “What’s wrong? Did you hurt your leg?”

Adrian reflexively curled up one of his legs, and put his arm around it before barking out irritably, “I’d be fine even if you’d get a fracture out of that. Can you just go? Looking at you annoys me.”

He was still fine earlier, but Zhong Yan was suddenly given a scolding out of nowhere, so he left a little confused.

Perhaps he was unhappy because he made him fall down, so Zhong Yan thought, but he didn’t do it on purpose.

Adrian sat on the grass by himself for a while.

Zhong Yan’s waist was really slender. It had been so long since he held it. But…even during the best time of their relationship, Zhong Yan had never pressed his body down on him like that before, and he even held Zhong Yan’s waist so tightly…

No! Stop thinking about it! After sitting and mulling over things for a while, that part that had gotten a reaction earlier did not go down in the slightest and even became more spirited. Adrian forced himself not to think about the feeling from earlier and stared at the rabbit’s tail to divert his attention.

And the worst part was, the rabbit who had refused to step back actually came out by himself, perhaps because nobody was playing with it anymore. It lowered its head and rubbed its ear against Adrian, but Adrian grabbed the rabbit’s fur and yelled, “What a damned trouble maker, this rabbit ain’t no different from its owner!”