Incurable Pain

Incurable Pain | Chapter 26.2

Oops, it seems like the enemy’s mood is very irritable.

Yu Shitian shuddered slightly, feeling the impulse to flee. But she resisted, hesitating for a moment before saying softly, “Cousin, it’s me. I’m here to return the black card to you.”

The voice inside the room remained indifferent. “No need.”

“Don’t say that. You know the card won’t stop swiping when it’s in my hands.” Yu Shitian thought for a moment, then smiled faintly.

“If I accidentally exceed the limit, it wouldn’t be good if Uncle found out.”

Yu Yuan, when it comes to spending, has always been strict and doesn’t allow Yu Luoyin to spend recklessly. If there were indeed expenses beyond the limit, the information would be sent to him.

Sure enough, after a long silence, Yu Shitian ‘got her wish’ and heard the annoyed voice from the room saying, “Come in.”

She breathed a sigh of relief and pushed the door open with a smile. However, she was almost overwhelmed by the room filled with smoke. She felt like she could turn into a pink smoked pig on the spot.

“Cough, cough, cough, Brother, why have you been smoking so much lately? It’s ridiculous.” Yu Shitian frowned, waving her hand in disdain while coughing. She opened the window, letting in a blast of cold air that instantly freshened up the room.

“Stop talking nonsense.”

Yu Luoyin sat on the edge of the bed, his elbow casually resting on his knee. He held an unlit cigarette between his slender fingers. When he looked up, his black eyes seemed restless and dangerous. “Why did you come in?”

Yu Shitian had long realized that Yu Luoyin’s delay was not just about returning the card.

Yu Shitian’s hidden intentions were also detected, but she wasn’t ashamed. She shrugged indifferently, walked over to the swivel chair in front of the computer desk, and casually asked while spinning around.

“Cousin, have you been quarreling with your girlfriend lately?”

Despite Yu Shitian usually being clueless, her question at this moment was sharp and piercing.

Yu Luoyin suddenly felt even more irritable. He directly extinguished the cigarette with his fingers, indifferent to Yu Shitian’s surprised expression.

“…Are your fingers made of iron?” Yu Shitian couldn’t help but comment from the bottom of her heart.

“Are you crazy?”

Yu Luoyin didn’t retort. He also felt that he was crazy, and not in a good way.

If he weren’t crazy, why would he feel so restless and unsettled at this moment because of a little dumb girl? If this isn’t madness, then what is it?

Yu Shitian couldn’t help feeling a bit uneasy as she watched Yu Luoyin not only refraining from scolding her but also displaying a self-deprecating smile.

“Cousin, what’s wrong with you? Did you get dumped by a girl?”

…

Yu Luoyin asked expressionlessly, “Can you shut up?”

“Huh, is it true?” Yu Shitian not only didn’t shut up but also laughed.

Annoyingly, she stepped on a chair and leaned in front of Yu Luoyin with enthusiasm. “You got dumped? What kind of girl could dump you? Did she slap you too?”

She was genuinely curious about this.

“Who dares to dump me?” Yu Luoyin sneered.

“It’s me who doesn’t want her.”

From beginning to end, he had been the one in control of this relationship. He had orchestrated his approach to Bai Xunyin, their relationship, and only now had it slightly deviated… So he was just adjusting.

There were no feelings of being ‘dumped’ or gloominess afterward. He was just temporarily adjusting, that’s all.

Yu Luoyin stubbornly kept finding excuses to convince himself, but his black eyes were staring blankly at the ground, clearly absent-minded.

“Are you talking about the girl you gave the bracelet to a few days ago?” Yu Shitian scratched her head in confusion.

“What’s going on?”

She was really curious.

Yu Luoyin’s hand, which was tapping the cigarette ash, paused slightly, then he squinted thoughtfully.

He didn’t understand why Bai Xunyin’s attitude had suddenly become ‘unreasonable,’ nor did he understand her strange insistence and concern about their bet. But perhaps girls understood girls?

He couldn’t talk about these things with others, but revealing a little bit to Yu Shitian wouldn’t hurt.

After briefly explaining the situation and the current state of affairs, Yu Luoyin watched as Yu Shitian stared at him blankly.

Yu Luoyin, puzzled, frowned at her.

“What’s wrong?”

“…And you’re asking me what’s wrong?”

Yu Shitian, dropping the ‘cousin’ altogether, stood up abruptly and stomped her feet indignantly.

“Yu Luoyin, you’re such a jerk!”

“Yu Shitian.”

Yu Luoyin’s expression dropped to the bottom.

Yu Luoyin stared at her coldly. “What did you just call me?”

“… Cousin,” Yu Shitian quickly backed down, feeling apprehensive. However, the content she had just heard continued to echo perplexingly in her mind and chest, forcing Yu Shitian to speak a few words of truth:

“But seriously, you’re such a jerk. How much courage did that girl muster to enter into a relationship with you? And then you tell her it’s because of a bet. How could she not be heartbroken? And yet you wonder why she’s upset? You’re really clueless when it comes to girls’ feelings!”

Yu Luoyin’s refined eyebrows furrowed slightly, his black eyes filled with genuine puzzlement.

“It was initially because of the bet, but it wasn’t afterward,” he persisted.

“Why fixate on the initial reason?”

“Cousin, you really don’t understand what’s going on in a girl’s mind,” Yu Shitian sighed, looking at him with a look of exasperation.

“Let me ask you one question: after the truth came out, did you apologize to that girl?”

Yu Luoyin couldn’t help but pause.

As he carefully recalled, after that incident, he and Bai Xunyin had broken ties, had physical altercations, exchanged harsh words… But he hadn’t truly apologized.

Subconsciously, perhaps, he felt he didn’t need to apologize for this matter.

Yu Luoyin muttered to himself, “Did I do something wrong?”

“How could you not have done something wrong? Making a girl upset is wrong,” Yu Shitian retorted. Seeing Yu Luoyin’s reaction, she knew for sure that he hadn’t apologized. “Regardless, you have to apologize first before anything else.”

Whether Yu Luoyin genuinely felt that his joke about the bet was wrong or not, the real harm done to the girl was undeniable.

After a moment of silence, Yu Luoyin’s slender fingertips hesitated slightly. “Will apologizing… really help?”

He couldn’t shake the feeling that Bai Xunyin’s current attitude was exceptionally resolute.

“Who knows? It’s better than not apologizing at all. She didn’t even get a simple ‘I’m sorry’ from you.”

Perhaps girls truly understood girls better. Yu Shitian felt that if she were to fall for a boy only to find out later that it was because of a bet… she might actually contemplate murder.

“Cousin, you’re so handsome. What are you afraid of?”

Yu Shitian sighed as she looked at Yu Luoyin’s stunned expression.

“If you sincerely apologize and sincerely try to comfort her, maybe that girl will forgive you. But acting all high and mighty won’t work!”

She was probably one of the few who truly understood her cousin—Yu Luoyin may seem easygoing and refined, but he was full of arrogance and mischief, and most people couldn’t tolerate that.

Now, if he were to go and apologize for his mistake but do it with an air of superiority… well, that girl wouldn’t forgive him so easily!

Yu Luoyin quietly pondered for a while, seeming to nod slightly.

The young man sat on the edge of the bed, bathed in moonlight, appearing like a delicate sculpture, lonely and fragile.

It seemed that no matter what kind of guy it was, none could escape the torment of ’emotions’. Yu Shitian wasn’t surprised even though her cousin, who had always been deep and calculating, was involved.

Yu Shitian couldn’t help but sigh with emotion. Having obtained the information she sought; she was ready to leave.

But as she reached the door, she was stopped by Yu Luoyin’s clear voice. “Wait a moment.”

“Hmm?” Yu Shitian turned her head. “What’s up?”

Yu Luoyin looked at her, a smile playing on his lips.

“My mom sent you here to ask about me, right?”

Yu Shitian remained silent.

“Don’t tell her about what just happened,” Yu Luoyin said as he flicked the cigarette butt into the trash can. The force seemed to carry a hint of frustration, and even the light tapping on the plastic bag sounded crisp, making Yu Shitian shiver.

“Otherwise, be careful.”

…

They were truly cut from the same cloth, mother and son. They both knew what the other was thinking, engaging in intrigue and manipulation, leaving them as ‘pitiful pawns’ to be sacrificed.

Yu Shitian still valued her own life and nodded quickly. “Okay!”

After Yu Shitian left, Yu Luoyin relaxed his nerves, leaning back against the head of the bed. Subconsciously, he wanted to smoke another cigarette.

But when his fingers touched the cigarette box, he couldn’t help but think of something that had happened earlier with Bai Xunyin in the safety corridor.

Yu Luoyin didn’t smoke much when he was in a good mood or at school; he hadn’t even smoked much lately.

That day, while skulking in the safety corridor with Bai Xunyin, he inexplicably felt a craving for a cigarette. Thinking that no classmates would come to this place, his restless fingers reached into his pocket for the cigarette box.

However, just as he took out a cigarette and was about to put it to his lips, the girl frowned.

Her fair face, delicate features, and the slight furrow of her dark eyebrows made her look oddly endearing.

Yu Luoyin couldn’t help but tease her subconsciously, asking softly, “Don’t you like me smoking?”

“I like the light scent of smoke mixed with the smell of pine on your body,” the girl had messaged him at the time, saying it earnestly.

“But I don’t really like you smoking. Smoking is bad for you. Can you not smoke in the future?”

Yu Luoyin didn’t know that Bai Xunyin had seen him smoking the first time they met and had been wanting to say these words to him ever since.

At that time, he only felt that Bai Xunyin’s careful and interesting concern was adorable and smiled. He readily put away the cigarette.

It’s strange to say that since then, the number of times he smoked really decreased without him realizing it.

People who spend a long time together will unconsciously influence each other.

But now that Bai Xunyin didn’t want him anymore, he could only pick up smoking again.

Yu Luoyin lowered his gaze slightly, looking at the cigarette box in his long and slender hand that he was playing with. After a while, he skillfully flicked it into the trash can.

Quitting smoking, apologizing.

He wasn’t good at either, but he could try.

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