Ch51 - Reason (2/2)
“I don’t have my ID card.” Zhou Sheng realised.
“I do.” Chen Yekai’s IDs were all with him. He walked them to a five-star hotel and got a room at the front desk. The three of them remained silent the whole time. It was only when they entered the elevator that Chen Yekai said one sentence.
“Within the dream of the dreamer, the one who was dreamed of awoke.”
Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng both looked at Chen Yekai.
Chen Yekai said, “Ever since Ryuusei’s death, I’ve always felt like I’ve been living in a fleeting dream. Thank you.”
With a “ding”, the elevator arrived on their floor. Zhou Sheng said, “Nothing’s certain yet, you need to buck up.”
“Wah!” Yu Hao was completely stunned by the room. He had never stayed in such a fancy hotel before. And this was just a standard luxury room, so it wasn’t even considered the best. There were two huge beds, and the room was well-lit with ample sunlight. Chen Yekai opened the fridge, took out some drinks, and passed them to the other two.
Chen Yekai sat down. He looked at Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao expectantly, waiting for them to speak.
“Sleep there.” Zhou Sheng motioned for Yu Hao to sleep in one of the beds, then said to Chen Yekai, “You sleep in the other one.” Before he entered the bathroom, “I’ll take a bath first. I pulled an all nighter last night.”
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Yu Hao had already taken a bath in the morning, so he didn’t need to take another one before going to sleep. From the side, Chen Yekai took off his sweater and loosened the buttons of his shirt, “It’s hot.”
As they laid down on the beds, Yu Hao could barely fight back his sleepiness. He was relying solely on willpower to hold on as he listened to the sound of running water from the bathroom.
“Yu Hao.” Chen Yekai was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt. He was laying on his side as he looked at Yu Hao.
“Un.” Yu Hao turned sideways to also look at him.
Yet Chen Yekai only quietly watched Yu Hao. Yu Hao muttered under his breath, “Find a job that you’re willing to devote your life to. Be with a person whom you truly love: without being trapped by fame and profit, without the disturbance of the secular world, without being burdened by money. Don’t suffer because of choices or abandonment, and truly, find your freedom.”
“Those are your words.” Yu Hao said.
“That’s my ideal.” Chen Yekai said, “But I couldn’t do it.”
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Yu Hao, “You can achieve it someday. After graduating from high school, I also wanted to start a new life somewhere. But then I thought, starting a new chapter of my life has nothing to do with where I am.”
“Yes.” Chen Yekai sighed, “Ultimately, it all depends on your heart. You’re a strong and nurturing kid. Yu Hao……I want to ask……never mind.”
“Ask ah.” Yu Hao said, “You can ask me anything.”
“If……” Chen Yekai made a very difficult decision, “I know this analogy is very offensive, but if you were Ryuusei, then on the very last day……”
Yu Hao remembered his “last moment”. When that moment was about to come, his heart no longer held any hatred for anyone, “I think, since he chose that place, it meant that he still loved you. And I understand Ryuusei.”
Chen Yekai, “……”
“You said that he was too insecure.” Yu Hao smiled a little helplessly, “But that was only natural. Because you’re too outstanding, that kind of……it’s very hard for me to describe, it’s a kind of excellence that goes beyond reason. From ideas, from knowledge, from……how you view problems, it’s all very difficult to feel that one is worthy of your excellence.”
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“I’ve always been like this since I was a kid.” Chen Yekai nodded.
“I understand.” Yu Hao said, “Chen Laoshi, you’re rich, a curve wrecker, and you have such elegance too. You should be the pride of many — no matter of your family, or your lover. But actually, you are quite indifferent to a lot of things.”
“Yes.” Chen Yekai had to admit to it, “Most of the time, my polite attitude towards outsiders don’t reflect my true thoughts.”
Chen Yekai turned over to lie flat on his back and looked at the ceiling.
The sound of running water in the bathroom stopped, then a blow dryer could be heard . A moment later, Zhou Sheng, using a cotton swab to dig his ears, walked out of the hotel’s bathroom. He said to Yu Hao, “I’ve already washed and aired out my clothes and underwear by myself.”
When Yu Hao saw Zhou Sheng’s wheat-coloured chest and his well-built calves underneath his bathrobe, he thought, you you you……why aren’t you wearing anything inside??!!
Chen Yekai said, “Now you can tell me what happened ba.”
“In short, we are the patron saints of dreams.” Zhou Sheng walked over to Yu Hao’s bedside and said to Chen Yekai, “You can think of us as some kind of superhero or something; our duty is to help resolve the serious psychological problems of you mortals. But this all depends on the trust you place in us. I’m Sun Wukong, and Yu Hao is, the Archangel. Imagine that for a moment?”
Chen Yekai was very obedient as he strove to imagine it.
Zhou Sheng continued, “Kaikai, the more you trust us, the more powerful we become in your dream.”
Yu Hao, “……”
Zhou Sheng blurted out words like ‘superhero’ so smoothly that Yu Hao almost spat out his drink involuntarily. But Chen Yekai listened to him with unprecedented earnestness, and his expression immediately produced an atmosphere of absurdity.
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Chen Yekai held no doubts towards Zhou Sheng’s words. He answered, “Just like how I think Yu Hao can swim?”
“Yes.” Zhou Sheng picked up an iced cola and drank it in two gulps, “If you want redemption, ultimately, it’ll still depend on you. Do you think Lin Xun will still be too strong for you to overcome?”
Chen Yekai answered, “Of course not.”
Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao exchanged a look. Zhou Sheng said, “So you’re not scared of him.”
“Yes.” Chen Yekai said, “Only Ryuusei is a barrier that I can’t overcome. But after listening to Yu Hao, I can sort of understand myself better now.”
Yu Hao said, “Right now, the existence before the well is confirmed to be Ryuusei.”
“The gatekeeper may be Lin Xun.” Zhou Sheng said, “But if Kaikai’s not afraid of him, then he won’t be difficult to deal with.”
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Chen Yekai frowned as he listened to their conversation.
Yu Hao suddenly remembered something, so he asked, “Chen Laoshi, why did you want to do that that night? Can you tell me?”
Chen Yekai took a deep breath and answered, “Lin Laoshi had spoken to Ryuusei before he committed suicide. But, I……never knew that, Ryuusei and Lin Xun had met each other alone. Until that day, in the flower cafe, when you got splashed with coffee……I happened to hear it from Liang Laoshi.”
Yu Hao suddenly felt a chill in his heart; the entire sequence of events instantly connected.
“Wait wait wait!” Zhou Sheng immediately exclaimed, “Kaikai! Be specific about what could have occurred! Don’t hide anything! It’s very important for you to tell us everything!”
Chen Yekai said wearily, “I have reason to believe that Lin Xun had conducted some……psychological manipulation on Ryuusei.”
“Why?” Zhou Sheng said, “What does it have to do with him?!”
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Chen Yekai said, “He hated Ryuusei very much. From the very start, he had already expressed his opposition towards our relationship and didn’t want me to marry Ryuusei. He persistently asked me to reconsider, and he had always wanted to persuade Ryuusei to leave me.”
“Hold on.” Yu Hao recalled an indistinct memory. He looked at Chen Yekai and kept feeling that he could uncover many more clues from this……
Zhou Sheng, “In order to break the two of you up, he persuaded Ryuusei to commit suicide through psychological manipulation?!”
“Ryuusei suffered from depression.” Chen Yekai’s thoughts were in utter chaos, “This is a physiological disease. When it flares up, and when death was a type of liberation for them in the first place, under this sort of pain, the effects of any psychological manipulation would be magnified……I……”
Chen Yekai’s own psychological state had already been slightly unstable. Right now, he took quite a long time before he could compose himself.
Zhou Sheng, “Yu Hao?”
Yu Hao was thinking the whole time and hadn’t uttered a word.
Zhou Sheng didn’t hear that recording in the office, but Yu Hao did!
That day in the flower cafe, Liang Jinmin and Chen Yekai had sat down as they talked, and the recording that Lin Xun provided included a portion of what Chen Yekai said, “In this reincarnation cycle, I’ve met another kid like Ryuusei again……”
According to the situation, it could be deduced that this must have been said before Liang Jinmin told Chen Yekai about her own conjecture. Yu Hao began to try and recreate the entire conversation in his mind — Liang Jinmin invited Chen Yekai out, Chen Yekai first mentioned Yu Hao to Liang Jinmin, then after consoling him briefly, she mentioned what happened four years ago.
“That recording.” Yu Hao glanced at Zhou Sheng, and Zhou Sheng understood within an instant and very accurately grasped the most vital point.
“Does Lin Xun know that the two of you spoke privately?” Zhou Sheng said.
Chen Yekai was a little baffled. He began frowning and seemed to have figured something out.
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Zhou Sheng, “Your conversation was being monitored!”