Originated from mountains and seas, life never ends

Chapter 120 Or, what do you want me to do?

"Didn't you say you were leaving first? Why are you coming back?" Qin Jinyi said unhappily.

"I didn't bring any money, nor did I bring any Lieju." Qin Xiao answered honestly.

Qin Jinyi: ...

"Why did you let him go?" Qin Xiao jumped down from his seat and asked him.

"Didn't Bai Shutong say that there was an urgent matter?" Qin Jinyi was a little frightened when he saw his actions.

"But you didn't want him to go, did you? Why didn't you say so?"

"...What if there is something urgent?" Qin Jinyi lowered his eyes and sighed, "This kind of thing is not urgent..."

Qin Xiao looked at him silently, and suddenly said: "So you just acquiesce. If he says anything, you agree?"

Qin Jinyi: ...

"I, I haven't told Dad yet..." Qin Jinyi couldn't help but cover his face when he mentioned this, "What if Dad finds out and wants to break my legs?"

Qin Xiao: ...

"...I will help you find a good doctor." Qin Xiao said solemnly.

Qin Jinyi: ...

Qin Jinyi: "Can't you just wish me success? Can't you hope that Dad will be more open-minded?"

Qin Xiao: "So what you mean is that if Dad doesn't agree, then he's not open-minded?"

Qin Jinyi: ...

Qin Jinyi's eyes were complicated: "When did you become so good at talking?"

Qin Xiao shifted his gaze: "It has always been like this."

Qin Jinyi glanced at him unhappily, and walked out with him. After they went out, they looked at the square where the flow of people was gradually decreasing, and suddenly asked, "Do you feel that something is wrong with Senior Bai?"

"What's wrong?" Qin Xiao glanced at the crowd and got on the Lieju with Qin Jinyi.

"That is, I feel that he..." Qin Jinyi frowned, seeming to be very confused, "He seems to be somewhat hostile to me, as if he is afraid that Mo Hanshang and I will get too close... Does he think that I have taken away his friend?"

"Maybe he likes Mo Hanshang too." Qin Xiao said casually.

“How could that be?” Qin Jinyi disagreed, “Not everyone can accept... this kind of thing. Besides, he and Mo Hanshang have been together for such a long time, and nothing has happened in between…”

Qin Jinyi shook his head: "It's better not to speculate about others like this."

After hearing this, Qin Xiao stopped talking.

……

"Is this what your sister said, urgent matter?" Mo Hanshang held back something, sat on the chair, folded his arms and leaned on the table, staring at Bai Shuheng.

"Just be patient with me." Bai Shuheng raised his bandaged arm and waved it, "I'm already like this..."

They were in the medical room of the competition arena. Bai Shuheng was lying on the bed, his whole body wrapped in bandages, one leg was in a splint, and one arm was hanging. He looked at Mo Hanshang helplessly.

"Isn't he still alive?" Mo Hanshang crossed his legs and looked him up and down. "You also won the game, so just be happy."

Bai Shuheng laughed when he heard him mention this: "This is just the beginning, only the second game, and it's like this..."

"At least you won two games, so you can still advance even if you don't play the third game." Mo Hanshang said indifferently, "What do you want to talk to me about? Didn't you say we'll get together tomorrow?"

"Why are you so angry? Did Shutong's departure affect you and Qin Jinyi?" Bai Shuheng lowered his eyes. "It's really sad to talk about it. I obviously knew you before him, but now you care about him more than I do. What's wrong? You're fickle."

"You are different from him." Mo Hanshang shifted his gaze.

"What's the difference?" Bai Shuheng asked, "Why, are you going to have a love affair with him?"

Mo Hanshang wanted to respond perfunctorily, but suddenly he remembered what Qin Jinyi had just said. He paused and responded, "Yes."

Now it was Bai Shuheng's turn to be stunned: "What?"

"I said I want to talk about love with him." Mo Hanshang curled his lips and smiled evilly, "Why, you want to talk to me too?"

"…You said it as if it were true. Have you confessed your feelings?"

"I've said it before, he has always disagreed." Mo Hanshang mentioned this, his eyes gleaming, "But today he told me that if I tell my parents, he will agree... hehe."

Looking at Mo Hanshang like this, Bai Shuheng's fingers trembled slightly, and his eyes darkened as he thought of something.

Mo Hanshang seemed to be thinking of some happy scene, and chuckled twice: "I already told him...but your sister dragged me over here."

Speaking of this, the smile on Mo Hanshang's face disappeared again, and he looked at him expressionlessly.

Bai Shuheng pulled the corner of his mouth and forced a smile: "My question has delayed our discussion..."

Mo Hanshang snorted softly: "It's good to know."

After he finished speaking, for some reason, the atmosphere suddenly became gloomy. After a moment of silence, Bai Shuheng spoke again.

"Will uncle and aunt agree?"

"I don't know." Mo Hanshang scratched his head, "But it doesn't matter, right? My father is still in good health. The last time he wanted to beat me, he chased me for dozens of miles."

Bai Shuheng: ...

"Although the beating may be a bit heavy this time, I will be prepared to run away in advance." Mo Hanshang said, nodding, "Tsk, I will definitely not let him catch me this time."

Bai Shuheng: ...

"Then...did he tell his father?" Bai Shuheng asked in a tight voice, his throat a little dry.

Mo Hanshang was stunned, thinking about Qin's father's attitude towards him, and said hesitantly: "It should be... not, right?"

"Then why did he ask you to talk to your uncle and aunt? He clearly didn't do it himself." Bai Shuheng looked up and asked, as if he had found some loophole.

"But now I'm the one pursuing him." Mo Hanshang asked curiously, "Since I'm the one pursuing him, of course he makes the request and I satisfy it. If he was pursuing me, then I would definitely be the one making the request."

"Besides, it's better for him not to say anything now, so as to avoid being beaten by his father. Although his father looks calm, who knows if he will be like my father, chasing kids and beating them all day long? After all, they had a lot of fun when they were young." Mo Hanshang couldn't help but grit his teeth as if he thought of the scene of Qin Jinyi being chased and beaten.

"When the time comes, I will go and tell his father. If I want to beat him, he can just chase me and beat him. Then he won't have to be scolded or beaten." Mo Hanshang laughed.

Bai Shuheng's complexion became worse and worse, and he could hardly hold on to his smile.

In the end, she gave up smiling and looked at Mo Hanshang.

"You've only known each other for a few years? Why are you so sure that you like him? What if it's just a friendship—"

"How could I possibly confuse something like that?" Mo Hanshang said with a smile, "Bai Shuheng, I've actually discovered recently that you're deliberately ostracizing him."

Bai Shuheng's body froze and he looked at him in disbelief: "Me?"

"That night, the night I took my brother with me, you behaved very clearly." Mo Hanshang crossed his arms, still smiling, but his eyes were much cooler.

"Just because I didn't say it doesn't mean I don't know." Mo Hanshang looked at him, "I know that I have indeed spent less time with you since I fell in love with him, but because I never explained it to you, I thought you might be a little jealous. After all, we have such a good relationship and have always been partners. Suddenly there is a new friend in between, I would also feel a little jealous, so I explained it to you clearly today."

"In the beginning, I did treat him as a junior, a little friend, but gradually my feelings changed. I fell in love with him, so I would no longer be satisfied with our relationship being just friends." Mo Hanshang tilted his head and said such gentle words, but his eyes were indifferent and he exuded hostility.

"You are different from him, you don't have to be jealous of him. After all, you don't want to fall in love with me, right?" Mo Hanshang chuckled, but Bai Shuheng could not feel any emotion from it.

When Bai Shuheng heard his words, he tightened his fingers and opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

"I don't want this to happen again." Mo Hanshang let go of his hand and stood up. "I don't care whether you and Shutong did it intentionally or unintentionally today. If you still want to be friends with me, don't do this again."

"Personally, I don't want to lose you as a friend, Bai Shuheng." Mo Hanshang walked to the door, opened it, turned around and glanced at him indifferently, "The choice is yours, decide for yourself."

After saying that, he walked out of the room.

The door opened and closed, and the room was silent. Bai Shuheng stared in one direction for a long time, and gradually, his chest began to rise and fall violently. He took a few deep breaths, and finally couldn't help punching the bed. The bandage soon turned bloody.

"……elder brother."

Bai Shutong walked in and saw Bai Shuheng like this, with a complicated look in her eyes.

"I thought he didn't understand." Bai Shuheng lowered his head, looked at his bloody palm, and smiled sarcastically, "It turns out he realized it a long time ago..."

"Then he knows everything, just tell him——"

"He has already confessed his feelings to Qin Jinyi." Bai Shuheng gritted his teeth, "Qin Jinyi also said that if he confessed to his parents, he would agree."

"Then stop him, that's not--"

"...No." Bai Shuheng closed his eyes and clenched his fists. "If I miss it, I miss it... Never mind."

"What do you mean forget it? Weren't you and grandma before--"

"Then what do you mean? Want me to tell him that I like him now? To make him and Qin Jinyi regret it?" Bai Shuheng raised his head abruptly, his eyes sharp and sinister, "I won't do that, and neither will he. If he does that... then he's not Mo Hanshang."

"But..." Bai Shutong opened her mouth, seeming a little sad.

"No need to say more." Bai Shuheng's voice faded, and he seemed a little tired. "That's it."

……

“…Say it again.”

Qin Xiuyun looked at Qin Jinyi sitting in front of him and couldn't believe what he heard.

Qin Jinyi bit her lip and said ruthlessly: "I said I like men!"

Qin Xiuyun: ...

Qin Xiuyun felt as if struck by lightning. Looking at Qin Jinyi who wanted to bow his head to the ground, he could not believe that he meant that.

"...I'm sorry!" Qin Jinyi suddenly hit his head on the soft bed, looking as if he was going to die.

Qin Yun'an, who had just finished taking a shower with a bath towel wrapped around his lower body, was stunned when he saw this scene.

"...What's going on?" Qin Yun'an came over, sat down on his bed, and asked while putting on his clothes.

When Qin Jinyi heard Qin Yun'an's voice, he felt even more ashamed. He buried his face in the quilt, not daring to look up at Qin's father's face.

Qin Xiuyun: ...

Qin Xiuyun looked at Qin Yun'an, then at Qin Jinyi, and after thinking for a long time, he decided to explain to Qin Yun'an first: "He said... he likes men."

Then, he looked at Qin Jinyi and opened his mouth.

"You're telling me this now... is there something wrong, or is there someone you like?"

When Qin Jinyi heard this, his ears turned red.

When Qin Xiuyun saw him like this, he immediately understood, touched his forehead and sighed.

"Like a man?" Qin Yun'an was stunned for a moment, wiping his hair, "Are you okay? Who do you like?"

Qin Yun'an's words stunned both of them. Qin Jinyi raised his head and looked at him, a look of confusion on his red face.

"……what?"

"Can you... accept it?" Qin Jinyi blinked.

"Oh, it's okay." Qin Yun'an was also confused by their reaction, "I've seen a few of them... What's wrong?"

"Then...you too?" Qin Xiuyun said with some doubt.

"Ah? I'm not." Qin Yun'an was stunned and denied it flatly, "...I'm not sure, I've never liked anyone."

"You've been in the mountains for so long, haven't you met someone you like?" Qin Jinyi was a little curious.

"How should I put it..." Qin Yun'an blinked, "Most of the people I met wanted to kill me."

Qin Jinyi: ...

How miserable.

Qin Yun'an clenched his fists, closed his eyes, and said with a hint of pride: "So I am a first-rate runner."

Qin Xiuyun: ...

Qin Xiuyun glanced at him speechlessly, then looked at Qin Jinyi whose face was still blushing, and sighed: "So, which man do you like?"

Qin Jinyi felt a little uncomfortable when he heard the topic suddenly change back. He turned his head awkwardly and muttered softly: "It's... the Mo family."

"What?" Qin Xiuyun didn't hear clearly for a moment.

"Just..." Qin Jinyi hesitated for a moment, and finally mustered up the courage to look up at him. The moment he saw Qin's father, he couldn't help but lose his temper, and his voice unconsciously softened, "Mo Hanshang."

"Mo Hanshang? The Mo family?" Qin Xiuyun was stunned. "You are two years apart in age, right?"

"Yes... yes." Qin Jinyi bit his lower lip, nodded, and stared at Qin's father nervously, not knowing how he would react.

"Are you sure you like him?" To Qin Jinyi's surprise, Qin Xiuyun did not show any extreme reactions such as rejection or disgust, but looked at him seriously and asked.

"I--"

"Are you sure it's not dependence, admiration for the strong... or something?" Qin Xiuyun sat cross-legged. "You are still young, and you may mistake other emotions for love, especially for the same sex, because the relationship and boundaries between the same sex are much more intimate and vague than those between the opposite sex. Some things will not feel strange when you do them, but love is different after all."

Qin Jinyi blinked, his face was still red, but the redness on the tips of his ears had gradually faded, and he listened carefully to his father's words.

"You may be able to accept going shopping, playing, sparring, and even holding hands with him, but..." Qin Xiuyun paused, as if it was difficult to speak, "Not only do we have to do these things together, we also do things that are more intimate and excessive. Can you accept it?"

"Too intimate?" Qin Jinyi was a little puzzled.

"It's just a kiss." Qin Yun'an suddenly interrupted and said bluntly, "How do you think it would feel if you kissed him?"

Qin Jinyi was stunned. Thinking about that scene, the red color that had just faded came up again, even more exaggerated, and it looked like it was about to smoke.

Qin Xiuyun: ...

Qin Xiuyun and Qin Yun'an understood it at the same time.

Qin Yun'an sighed and patted Qin Xiuyun's shoulder comfortingly.

"No, that's not it." Qin Jinyi looked at the expression on Qin Xiuyun's face and explained hurriedly, "I didn't think about that. I, I just..."

Qin Jinyi gestured frantically, but the more he explained, the darker it became. In the end, he covered his hands and lowered his head again.

"I'm sorry... Dad."

Qin Jinyi lowered his head, his voice full of guilt.

He also knew that Qin Xiuyun had not had it easy these years. After his mother passed away, Qin Xiuyun had to be both a father and a mother, and also take care of the family affairs. He got up early and went to bed late every day, and had to worry about a lot of things, and also take care of their moods. Now that he finally came out to relax, he still had to worry about the third brother and his affairs...

The more Qin Jinyi thought about it, the sadder he became. He could understand any reaction of Qin Xiuyun, so he didn't say anything and just sat there quietly, waiting for Qin Xiuyun's answer.

The person in front of him sighed again, seeming very tired.

Qin Jinyi pursed her lips and said nothing.

Then a hand fell on his head.

Then, a gentle voice sounded.

"You chose to confess to me today. Did something happen? Or do you want me to do something?"

Qin Jinyi was stunned, raised her head in disbelief, met Qin Xiuyun's gentle and tolerant gaze, finally couldn't help crying, and hugged him.

"father……"