Ch77.1 - Valentine’s (1/2)
Medusa’s eyes gleamed crimson. Zhou Sheng immediately raised his shield to block as the black dragon took the initiative and rushed forward!
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The bell rang, and the audience erupted into an uproar!
During summer vacation, Zhou Sheng went out almost every day — either for a morning or night run. Meanwhile, Yu Hao started on his second job. He had to translate Chinese reports into English this time, assisting the World Health Organization in establishing a database for the Greater China region to improve accessibility.
Among them, the cases of crimes caused by psychological issues were just horrifying. Compared to the previous batch of manuscripts, the current one was more difficult for Yu Hao to go through. As he translated, he often stopped to wonder if the report was real. He checked the sources of the reports and the content of the newspaper clippings — they were all published by the local news media.
“Some people commit homicide.” Zhou Sheng said, “Like those cases with dismembered corpses, and in order to get away with the crime, they would bribe the doctor to give them a false diagnosis. Of course, it doesn’t rule out the fact that homicide can be committed by people who are actually psychotic, but nothing can be done about that. There are a lot of people who have been acquitted under the juvenile protection law as well.”
Yu Hao said, “That’s too cruel.”
Of the news that he had read previously, every single one of them had caused quite a sensation, like the case in Chongqing where a small girl had beaten up a one-and-a-half-year-old toddler in an elevator, or the rape and murder case in Changping’s New Oriental School. However, the media had merely exposed the tip of the iceberg.
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What made him most uncomfortable were the cases he had never heard of before: the revenge killing in Tonghe, Heilongjiang Province; revenge for habitual theft of a minor in Dongguan……these cases were a little too much for his heart. Apart from the cruelty of the acts, what made him even more angry was how the criminals would only stay in the reformatory for one and a half years or even be released since they weren’t deemed guilty under juvenile protection laws.
“I’ll translate it in a few days.” Yu Hao said, “I don’t want to read these anymore, it makes me really upset.”
“Those are just the ones you know about.” Zhou Sheng said, “There are still tons of cases out there in the world that you don’t know about. I had a classmate in junior high; he was a pretty good guy, but we weren’t that close. He always bumped into me when we played basketball. I repeated a year while he went to high school, and he got into a pretty good school too. But because he was wooing a girl, he got surrounded by a bunch of people and got beat up in an alley. His skull was fractured, and he had to be admitted to ICU; after being bedridden for a month, he died.”
“What about the murderers?” Yu Hao asked.
“Ran away.” Zhou Sheng said, “Their parents helped. After keeping their distance for a year, they were captured and received a three-year sentence. The case wasn’t reported, the school and his parents had colluded to suppress it. Learning a bit of self-defence still has its use, at the very least you wouldn’t die in such a stifling way. If anyone dares lay a hand on Laozi, then let’s all die together ba.”
Yu Hao got a WeChat message. Zhou Sheng was playing games in the upper bunk and had just unleashed a big move. His gaze shifted from his phone screen; he ignored Sun Wukong for awhile and turned sideways to glance at Yu Hao, who had his head buried in his phone to reply to his messages.
“That rich guy again?” Zhou Sheng asked.
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Yu Hao still hadn’t recovered from his depressed mood after translating those scripts, “Un……he asked me out for dinner.”
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Thus, Yu Hao put his knowledge of psychological treatments and guidance to practical use and chatted with him for two hours. The man felt better the next day and transferred a thousand to him. Yu Hao was immediately frightened and didn’t dare to accept it, but the other man kept sending him messages. Zhou Sheng wasn’t around during the day and was also ignoring him. Yu Hao translated documents in the dormitory and would sometimes reply to him in his spare time.
The guy was called “Gothic Armour”, and his profile picture was Luffy. He’s bisexual and has had both boyfriends and girlfriends. His ex-girlfriend went abroad and didn’t want to come back, while Gothic Armour didn’t like the environment abroad and wouldn’t go with her, so they peacefully broke up.
Yu Hao did find him easy to talk to, like he was just a normal online friend.The topics they talked about barely touched upon love or dating. It was as if he was a straight guy he had befriended through a game as they talked about various things during their idle chats. Gothic Armour enumerated all his exes to Yu Hao — there were a dozen or so, and there were even two who had terminated pregnancies for him. One of them had cooked for him every day, while the other often bought things for him.
But there were no longer any feelings, and love was dead.
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Gothic Armour asked Yu Hao:【Do you think I’m a scummy guy?】
Yu Hao thought, more importantly, are you even gay? Don’t tell me you’re just using me to pass time ba. However, even though this person has a rich relationship history, he was still a very earnest and persistent guy. Aside from his prolonged and short lovelorn sighs, he was quite upright when it came to his views on a lot of societal issues.
It was only when Gothic Armour asked him what he looked like one day that Yu Hao casually sent him a picture of him singing in the college.
Gothic Armour was instantly stunned:【You’re a celebrity?】
Yu Hao:【How could that be? Take a closer look, wouldn’t it be too sad if a celebrity performed on such a shabby stage?】
Gothic Armour:【Don’t lie to me, I’ve seen that person before. He’s been on ‘My Style, My Show’.】
Then he said a name and Yu Hao replied:【That really is me!】
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Gothic Armour:【Take another photo then? You guys can’t look that alike. Do you have any brothers or cousins who are in showbiz?】
Yu Hao casually took a photo and suddenly wondered if he had been tricked, but the photo had already been sent.
From that day on, Gothic Armour began throwing money at him.
A 200 yuan red packet in the morning titled【Baby have you woken up】, followed by another 188 yuan red packet after a short while:【Baby why are you ignoring me?】Yu Hao accidentally fell into his trap once and accepted 180 yuan from him. That guy wouldn’t take it back when Yu Hao tried to return it to him, so he could only set it aside for now. After that, as soon as the message ‘the current version does not support checking this message, please check your message on the mobile phone’ appears on the WeChat on his desktop, Yu Hao would wonder, why are you sending me a red packet again? Do you have nowhere else to spend your money?
Zhou Sheng asked, “How much did he send you today?”
Yu Hao, “Don’t touch it!’
Zhou Sheng tapped the entire row of ‘Ba, by, Ha, ppy, Valentine’s, Day’, and 1,200 yuan entered his account. Yu Hao blew up and shouted, but Zhou Sheng tapped on the last red packet【Have dinner with me?】and said, “1400, not bad.”
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