If You Don’t Go To Hell, Who Will? - Chapter 33

As I  was eating breakfast. Su Yan suddenly came in the room. When he saw me, he said happily: “Mu er, do I look good in this ?”

“Yup .” I nodded casually and felt a cold wave hit me from a certain direction.Then very casually, I added, “Not as good as my family’s Zhong Yuan .”

Zhong Yuan proudly raised his chin and looked at Su Yan provocatively.

I have seen narcissism,but never to such an extent. He was really too much>_<

Su Yan ignored Zhong Yuan. He walked over to me and leaned on the table to bring his face closer to mine. “Mu er, are you free this evening?”

Before I could speak, Zhong Yuan answered on my behalf . “She has an elective course this evening.”

I nodded as I took a small bite of bread. I was a good boy and I never skipped classes.At this moment , Xiaojie came in. Seeing her, Zhong Yuan shouted excitedly : “Director, let’s start work.”

So Xiaojie greeted everyone and started work. I thought  this was a little unbelievable. Ming Xiaojie was the director. Why would the director listen to the actors? Zhong Yuan was not a good person, but I did not expect that he would bully even the director. Too bad>_<

We all moved to a nearby meadow. In this scenario, Zhong Yuan and Su Yan don’t know each other. The first time they meet, they fight.

The sequence was discussed and the shooting started . Zhong Yuan and Su Yan stood on the side of the road and argued for a while . Then the  two people became more excited and suddenly grabbed each other. Zhong Yuan punched Su Yan’s face. As his fist connected, Su Yan quickly grabbed Zhong Yuan’s hand, pulled his arm and flipped it, trying to hold on to his wrist. When Zhong Yuan saw this, his body flipped, and he kicked Su Yan in the belly  to get him to release his grip. Su Yan let go of Zhong Yuan, stepped back, and looked at Zhong Yuan with a calm face.

I leaned over to Xiaojie and whispered, “ Who is the action director of the team? He is quite good. This is very realistic .”

Xiao Jie suddenly looked at the two people who, while fighting, had tumbled from the roadside to the grass, and shook her head and said, “There is no action director.”

I was shocked and looked at the gorgeous movements of the two people and said, “Don’t tell me!  Why do these two people look like martial arts masters ? If they move any faster, they can star in genuine action movies.”

Xiaojie shook her head incredulously. “I don’t know. I told them yesterday, just pretend whatever you can . Anyway, this is a romantic movie.

At this time, the two dedicated actors were already deeply involved in the fight. Zhong Yuan pressed Su Yan onto the grass and sat on his body. Then he punched him on his face. I could see the breath whoosh out of his body.At the same time, I saw that there was a red thing on Su Yan’s nose. Both of them were red-eyed, like beasts, and it was quite frightening to watch.

I patted Xiaojie’s shoulder and said, “Who is the props master? He is quite good. This is very realistic. Even the fake blood was ready.”

By this time, Xiaojie was a little panicked. “No… this wasn’t in the script. No fake blood was prepared…..”

I was stunned. This whole thing seemed  bizarre.

At this point, Xiao Jie regained her senses. She responded quickly and yelled: “This is not good! Hurry up and pull them apart . These two people are really fighting!”

Then the onlookers rushed over  and pulled the two men apart. The two men were still being ruled by violent emotions and struggled to free themselves. They were red-eyed and continued to try and  rush towards each other. Fortunately, the masses were more powerful and did not let the gangsters succeed.

Xiao Jie grabbed the back of my shirt and said, “Mu er, go!” Then she pushed me between the two.

I cursed Xiaojie while pulling up Zhong Yun from the ground. Then we ran. Zhong Yuan decided to respect my attempt . He did not struggle. I thought this was a good way of resolving things. Staying here and being part of the mass crusade was not helping matters. And if Zhong Yuan ran away, Su Yan would become the default winner.

Zhong Yuan and I sat in the small garden near the pharmacy. I gently swabbed the corner of his mouth with cotton and then applied the medicine. His mouth was bruised but there were no cuts. The rest of his face was intact.

Zhong Yuan breathed in sharply. I stopped what I was doing and asked him, “ What’s the matter?”

He shook his head slightly and muttered, “ Its okay.”

“ Just endure the pain for a little while” , I said as I resumed applying the medicine. When I thought about what had just transpired, I couldn’t help wondering out aloud, “ What really happened out there ?”

Zhong Yuan smirked. His action made his wound ache and he breathed in sharply. His eyebrows danced as he smiled and said, “ Wasn’t it realistic ?”

I rolled my eyes, “ Aren’t you overdoing this?”

“ It’s fine”, Zhong Yuan answered blithely. Then he pressed his lips together and asked me,” Why didn’t you pull off Su Yan?”

“ From what I saw, you were the one who started the fight.”

After being caught like this, Zhong Yuan stayed silent. When I applied the medicine, he softly spoke, “ Thank you.”

His sudden politeness made me a bit uncomfortable. I tried to brush it off lightly, “ You don’t need to thank me. Anyway, I used your card to buy the medicines.”

No one spoke. The autumn breeze had a touch of cold. I stared at the gold chrysanthemums as a strange emotion stirred in my heart. I was feeling strange.

…..

The elective class at night was boring. I almost fell asleep as I sat listening to the teacher. I bowed my head on the table and started drawing endless circles in my notebook.  Zhong Yuan was by my side. As he bent over to see my notebook, he realised there were no notes. Instead the page was full of circles. He looked at me disdainfully.

I looked at the ceiling sadly and said, “ I’m bored.”

Zhong Yuan nodded. “ Let’s do something interesting. Let’s rehearse the script.”

I turned to look at him. “ We’re in a class! How can we rehearse?”

Zhong Yuan took out the script from his bag and flipped through it, “ The film has a lot of scenes in the classroom. Hey.. there is a scene where you fall asleep and I kiss you.”

A chill ran through me as I muttered, “ Lil second is really something !”

“ I think it’s not bad,” he said as he put the script on the table, “so should we rehearse ?”

I grabbed my hair and said helplessly, “ Sure. Anyway, we will have to do it sooner or later.”

Zhong Yuan nodded and asked me, “ So where should I kiss you ? On the lips or on your cheek?”

What ? I didn’t understand, “ Doesn’t the script say where you are supposed to kiss me?”

“ Nope.”

I despised Xiao Jie .” Kiss me on the cheek. I want to preserve my first kiss.”

Zhong Yuan smiled mischievously, “ You already had your first kiss.”

I suddenly remembered what Zhong Yuan had done to me during the summer vacation. I felt like killing him, “That was wrong of you!”

Zhong Yuan ignored my annoyance and gently pressed my head to the desk.

“Let’s start.”

So I put a lid on my emotions and put my head on the desk and waited for Zhong Yuan to kiss me.

As I lay my head on the table, I suddenly felt nervous. My heart was beating so wildly I felt it would jump out of my body at any moment. The voices of the teacher and the students faded in the background. The only things I could hear were the sound of my breathing and the drumming of my heart. I tried to comfort myself. This is just a kiss…. I am dedicated to art…

I closed my eyes but I could feel Zhong Yuan approaching me. His breath hit my face. I felt my face heat up and my breathing turned uneven.

Zhong Yuan was very close to me. I could clearly feel his breathing, but he had not made a single move for sometime now. I kept my eyes tightly shut as my body stiffened, waiting for the imminent intrusion, but nothing happened. Finally, curiosity won over and I opened my eyes.

Zhong Yuan’s face was very close to mine. His eyes were half closed as he looked at me. His eyes were dark and bright, like black pearls in the night sky. His long eyelashes were like two small fans, framing his eyes. His eyebrows were relaxed, his face was soft and his eyes looked like two still pools in the late autumn.

He just stared at me, with no intention to act. I thought the atmosphere between the two of us was really strange. Just as I started to say something, I heard him whisper,”You are blushing.”

My face became as hot as a furnace.

He bowed slightly and gently pressed a kiss on my cheek. I breathed in sharply as my heartbeat accelerated madly.

His lips were soft and cool, but my face was not cooled by the touch of his lips. On the contrary, my face turned warmer.

Zhong Yuan reached out and put a hand on my shoulder to shake me gently. “ What happened?”
I shrugged off the hand but refused to speak.

There was a mischievous smile in his voice, “ Are you feeling shy?”

That was an understatement. I was beyond embarrassed. I really wanted to hide under the table and never come out.

Zhong Yuan sighed dramatically and then in his typical narcissistic fashion asked me, “ Mu er, do you like me?”