181 So Many Love the Joyful Times of Your Youth (1/2)

When Ye Qingxuan walked out of the old mansion the next day and felt the sun, he had the urge to cry. ”It’s so nice to be alive” he said.

For the past two days, he had been tortured by that crazy woman Lola in so many ways. When he was awake, she would use excuses to order him around. When he was asleep, he would have different nightmares. He could not live nor die.

It would be okay if it was just consumption of physical and mental strength. After all, Lola’s food was pretty good. She would use different ways to nourish him. It could basically make up for his exhaustion.

At first, Ye Qingxuan had been touched, but when he finished, Lola held down his neck and revealed two small canines to start ‘eating.’ Ye Qingxuan realized her ulterior motive!

”That crazy woman completely turned me into a personal blood bank!” Ye Qingxuan rubbed the two small holes on his neck and felt his heart hurt. There was no trust between people. Now, he just wanted to get home quickly, sleep, and go to the library tomorrow to read everything on Lola’s book list.

Thinking of how he had been busy every day for the past few months, and was about to become even busier, Ye Qingxuan was depressed. Life was so hard and the days were impossible.

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After his long wait on the side of the road, bells finally chimed in the distance. It was the public horse carriage returning to uptown. Ye Qingxuan pulled himself together. He did not need to walk anymore.

”Stop, stop!” He blocked the carriage in the front and flashed his academy badge. ”Give me a ride.”

”Concertmaster Ye?” came a shocked voice within.

Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan looked up and quickly reacted. ”Wow, what a coincidence. What school are you all from? All of you ditching together?”

”…”

The extended carriage was filled with at least a dozen boys and girls wearing school uniforms. They were all from the academy. Hearing his words, they became speechless. Someone muttered, ”Concertmaster Ye, today’s the returning day.”

Ye Qingxuan was confused but then he remembered that every ten days, the Academy would have a three-day break. Coincidentally, today was the day break ended and everyone returned to school. But Ye Qingxuan had ditched too many classes and did not have this concept in his mind.

”Sorry, forgot about that.” He chuckled awkwardly and went past the seats to the very back. He quickly closed his eyes and began sleeping. Along the way, students entered the carriage constantly. They were stunned when they saw him, but they would all come forward and politely greet ”Concertmaster Ye.”

After all, the only ones who would use the public carriage to return were commoners who did not have money or their own carriages. As for Ye Qingxuan’s concertmaster position, there was widespread recognition and respect. But for some reason, they all looked at him strangely today.

In his drowsiness, he vaguely heard the whispers in the carriage.

”Look at him…”

”Seems real?”

”Yes, it’s him.”

”If it’s me…”

”He’s the concertmaster. Stop the delusions.”

The voices caused Ye Qingxuan to furrow his brows. He opened his eyes to look over, but everyone avoided his gaze and pretended that nothing happened. The weird atmosphere persisted until the carriage stopped at the academy’s entrance. The students got off one by one, but Ye Qingxuan still did not know what had happened. He randomly grabbed a student. ”What were you all saying?”

”Uh, you still don’t know…” the student replied. But when he turned and saw the white hair, his eyes widened and his tongue tied as if he had seen a ghost. ”N-nothing.” He shook his head forcefully. He was too scared to run but showed that, no matter what, he would not tell. Helpless, Ye Qingxuan let go and told him to scram.

”Are they all crazy?”

Enduring the strange glances his entire way back to the history department, he felt a giant burden lift after he closed the door. This was the best place. He could relax entirely after coming back.

”Hey, Cousin, you finally decided to come back.” Bai Xi, who was sitting on the sofa looking at pictures, looked up. Her gaze had a strange distance and she complimented him, ”Seems that you’re pretty fit. You can last two days.”

”What are you talking about?” Ye Qingxuan felt that something was wrong again.

”Oh, Yezi’s back?” Abraham walked out of the library. When he saw Ye Qingxuan, he thought of something and stopped talking, his expression turning awkward. ”The age gap isn’t much and you’re at that age, but…” He paused and advised with concern, ”Yezi, you’re a student, after all. You must control yourself.”

”Huh?!” Ye Qingxuan was confused again. ”Wait, Professor, what’s going on?”