Don’t Be a Kept Man

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From this kind of standpoint, Huo Ming Chen’s good and bad points were the result of Lu Qi’s actions and their relationship.

At 1pm, Sports Day officially began the opening ceremony.
It was the hottest time of the day, and every major had a cheerleading team consisting of only girls.
Young women in short skirts and crop tops made the whole field go wild, capturing almost, if not all, male gazes.

The basketball competition was on fire, with girls cheering for their crushes until their voices were hoarse,

“Language major Wang Jian Chao!! Fighting AHHHHH!!!”

“Chemistry major Jiang Yi!!! He’s my boyfriend!!!”

“Accounting major Lu Qi fighting ahh! If you win, I’ll be your girlfriend!!”

Lu Qi was wearing a work lanyard, standing just outside of the court.
He never even went inside to join the competition, only silently looking left and right, wanting to know if there was someone with the same name in the competition.

It seemed like someone was specifically paying attention to him, as laughter began to erupt from the group of girls cheering.
A more courageous senior girl shouted,

“Freshman Lu, that was you! Don’t be embarrassed.
Even if you aren’t participating, we’re still cheering for you!”

“……”

Lu Qi smiled back but did not reply.
This kind of thing seemed to happen often, and to avoid disgruntled voices, he decided to leave.

Fang Qi took this all in with his eyes, and carefully looked at the person beside him.
But Huo Ming Chen acted very normal which he felt was very abnormal.
He looked further down and oh, ah, the veins of his hand were popping out and that bottle of water was threatening to explode from the force being applied to it.

For some issues, Fang Qi would definitely side with Huo Ming Chen on, and to make him forget about reconciliation, he could not help but bad mouth Lu Qi, 

“Don’t be like this for that womanizer.
There are lots of two legged men out there.
Spending money to punish yourself isn’t really your style, that guy’s out for money and he’s even in a lot of debt……”

Huo Ming Chen did not seem to want to hear him babble, and with a lot of thoughts crowding his head, lied on the table pretending to go to sleep.

Those who were competing started getting injured or feeling ill, and Lu Qi and other volunteers helped them to the infirmary.
However about 8 out of 10 people were faking it, and Lu Qi started feeling out of breath from running so much.
Sweating by the buckets, he slowly walked down the stairs to catch his breath as going back and forth has been torture on his body. 

Physical Education Department’s Luo Yan saw him coming down, and vented,

“This group of lords, each one of them saying that they have heat stroke, all to escape the marathon run.
The class leader wanted me to replace them and it’s a miracle I’m not dead from exhaustion yet.”

He just finished venting, and he saw Lu Qi suddenly take one step into the open air, on the stairs where there were still five or six steps remaining.

And then Lu Qi began to roll down the stairs.

“Shit! Lu Qi! –!”

Watching the sky and the ground swirl around him before his vision went black, he heard the system who has not shown up for a long time, say once again,

[ Ding! Minor electrical shock initiating! ]

[ From the system’s scans, there are unknown deposits being made! My dear host, please find and return all fortune not earned by your hard work on time.
As this was not your wish, a special extension of 3 days has been granted.
If you exceed the 3 days, and you do not return the money you haven’t earned, a strong electric shock punishment will be initiated at once, and life points will be deducted.
]

[ Reject becoming a kept man, starting from you! The galaxy’s most self reliant system is happy to be at your service ]

What is this……

Who the fuck is becoming a kept man……

Lu Qi’s whole body shivered, angered into consciousness.
He opened his eyes, and it took a few seconds for him to orient himself, finding that he was lying on a sick bed in the infirmary.

“Awake?”

Beside him rang a playful voice.
Lu Qi propped himself up, and found that it was that bastard Fang Qi.
He was silent for a few seconds and then looked around, scowling, 

“Why are you here?”

“Stop looking, he didn’t come.”

Fang Qi threw away the melon seed husks in his hands into the garbage can,

“You rolled yourself from the top of the stairs to the infirmary.
As we once knew each other, I came to see you out of the goodness of my heart.
But as you are awake now, I’ll take my leave.”

He turned around to head out of the infirmary.

Right outside the infirmary, sat a person by the stairway.
His light colored t-shirt was soaked in sweat, and he was out of breath, as if he just did some extremely strenuous exercise.
Fang Qi looked back at the infirmary, and sighed.
He used his toe to kick the person’s back.

“He’s awake.
No issues.
The doctor said it could have been a heat stroke.”

As soon as he heard that, Huo Ming Chen stood up and, using the railings, took them one step at a time, heading down the stairs.
He pushed his sweat covered bangs back and said through heavy breathing,

“Keep your mouth shut.”

Fang Qi laughed,

“Ai ya, Prince Huo, your personality has changed.
You spent so much effort to carry him to the infirmary, and you didn’t even leave your name after your good work.”

And he couldn’t stop himself,

“Fuck, what kind of broken building is this, no elevators installed at all.”

Due to convenience, the sporting events were held close to the school infirmary.
Adding to the loud shouting by Luo Yan, quite a few people saw Lu Qi trip down the stairs.
Before Fang Qi could even react, Huo Ming Chen who was right beside him, stood up and ran straight over.

Huo Ming Chen ignored the topic,

“My leg hurts, I’m going back to rest.”

However thin Lu Qi was, he was still a man.
At least a hundred kilograms.
For Huo Ming Chen to carry him all the way to the infirmary without a break, without professional training, anyone would have been weak after that.

“Right next to us is the infirmary, and there’s beds.
You can just go to rest there.”

Fang Qi followed him all the way down, thinking that these two were such a matched set,

“You helped him, paid his debts, and sent him to the infirmary.
You obviously can’t forget about him.
Listen to me, just suck it up and it’ll be fine.”

The “cheating” case was investigated by Fang Qi, and at that time had been frustrated by Lu Qi’s flippant attitude.
So he did not tell Huo Ming Chen the truth, that the “other woman” was actually Lu Qi’s sister and only said that he owed a lot of money to some people.

He didn’t think that even though Huo Ming Chen was angry, he still asked for the loan shark’s information and helped that bastard out and paid his debts. 

Huo Ming Chen looked away, face cold, 

“The one who made a mistake was him, not me, why should I be the one to bow my head.”

His footsteps started going faster, leaving Fang Qi behind him.

“Ah! That was actually a misunderstanding!”

Fang Qi yelled out in response to Huo Ming Chen’s misunderstanding.
He hit himself on the head and ran to catch up to Huo Ming Chen.

The author has something to say:
Fang Qi: The Best One of Them All.
Huo Ming Chen: The Outstanding Ex
Lu Qi: The One Who Deserved to be Electrically Shocked Because He Was Too Slow to Return Money

 

Notes:
*1 growing a green pasture over his head is a saying that means your partner has cheated on the person and had sex/relationships with other people – usually the greener or the larger the pasture it is referenced, the more people/more times your partner has cheated on you.
So with this, Huo Ming Chen is referencing that Lu Qi cheated.
You can also say “被绿了”, meaning “I’ve been green” or like in footnote 2, “wearing a green hat” which means you’ve been/are being cheated on.

 

There’s a lot of bad connotations with green which is based on multiple factors of history and other myths and legends such as turtles (don’t hide like a coward, like a turtle) or in some dynasties, those related to prostitutes (in the same family, blood related or married to) were supposed to wear a green scarf.

*2   As like footnote 1, growing a green pasture over his head is like wearing a green hat.
It’s also been associated that if you wear a green hat, you should be ashamed/embarrassed (as you’re going to be or already have been cheated on).
This kind of saying has been around quite a long time (albeit in the beginning, it meant a different thing) but no one really knows where it originated from.
You can search up “绿帽子” to see some of the commonly used stickers for chats which are mostly self mocking or tease(or to curse) someone.