Only a small piece of scale fell off Gu Yang's tail, but the pain was severe. He tried his best to lift his tail to prevent the running water from touching the wound.
Fan Yuan simply changed his position while holding Gu Yang so that his tail was completely off the ground.
Gu Yang grabbed the corner of Fan Yuan's clothes with both hands, lowered his head, his whole body was covered with fine foam. Occasionally, there was a place not covered by the foam, and the exposed skin was pink. He was so embarrassed that he wanted to hide himself.
After Fan Yuan rubbed the foam for him, he washed his hair with light force on his fingertips. He washed carefully and seriously. Seeing that Gu Yang had been hunching his back, he supported his back.
"What are you afraid of? Look at your tail, it's the same front and back. Why would you be afraid of others seeing it?"
After hearing this, Gu Yang touched his tail foolishly, and it was indeed the same before and after.
“It seems so.”
Fan Yuan covered Gu Yang's eyes and took him to rinse off.
"Silly and cute."
Gu Yang's eyes were covered and he could not see anything. Hot water flowed down his head and it seemed that even his hearing was blocked. In the mist of hot air, he could not hear clearly what Fan Yuan said.
"Fan Yuan, what did you say?"
Fan Yuan rinsed his hair clean, pushed it back to reveal his full forehead, took down the shower head, and rinsed the foam off his body, not forgetting to cover the wound on Gu Yang's tail with his hand.
Gu Yang was finally able to open his eyes and looked at Fan Yuan, who was also soaked in water. He blinked his eyes, and the water drops hanging on his eyelashes fell and hit his eyes, causing him to squint immediately in pain.
Fan Yuan raised his hand to wipe his eyes and repeated what he said.
"I said you're stupid."
Gu Yang slapped Fan Yuan's hand away, rubbed his eyes hard, and slapped his tail in protest.
"I'm not stupid. Only a fool can participate in a math competition!"
Fan Yuan didn't argue with him. He rinsed the blue fish clean, carried it out of the bathroom, wrapped it in a bath towel and placed it on the bed.
Gu Yang wrapped himself in a dry bath towel and breathed a sigh of relief. His tense body also relaxed. It was finally over.
Fan Yuan suddenly lifted the hem of his clothes in front of Gu Yang and began to take them off.
Gu Yang immediately covered his eyes with his hands, spread his fingers wide, and peeked at Fan Yuan.
"What are you doing!"
Fan Yuan bent down to look for clothes in the suitcase, and turned around to sew up Gu Yang's stretched fingers.
"Change clothes, what else can you do?"
Gu Yang's fingers were closed, so he turned his body sideways and then quietly opened a gap to look.
When he saw Fan Yuan was about to take off his pants, he immediately closed his eyes and dared not look.
Fan Yuan changed his clothes, bent down to take the bath towel off Gu Yang, and touched his tail which had begun to dry.
"Almost changing back?"
Gu Yang's face flushed, he lifted up the tip of his tail and shook it, then nodded hesitantly, "It seems so."
Fan Yuan sat by the bed with medicine and Band-Aids waiting. Gu Yang stared at the purple medicine with a look of resistance.
"No need?"
Fan Yuan was very serious: "You must apply medicine."
The tail lost moisture, dried quickly, and soon turned back into two thin white legs.
Gu Yang immediately pulled up the quilt to cover his key parts. Fan Yuan reached out and grabbed Gu Yang's ankles, dragging him forward.
Fan Yuan was very strong, and Gu Yang was pushed far away, with one leg resting on Fan Yuan.
The wound was right next to his thigh. Gu Yang pressed the quilt tightly with both hands, and beads of sweat seeped out of his forehead.
Fan Yuan carefully helped Gu Yang clean the wound and apply medicine.
Gu Yang gasped in pain, pressing the quilt with one hand and pushing Fan Yuan's hand away with the other.
Fan Yuan thought he was not being honest, so he grabbed his wrist to prevent him from moving, and forcefully applied purple medicine on it.
"So pampered?" Fan Yuan said casually.
Gu Yang was unhappy and kicked Fan Yuan's shoulder with his foot. He was about to pull his foot back, but Fan Yuan quickly grabbed his ankle and lifted it up.
Gu Yang didn't sit firmly and was thrown onto the bed, screaming in surprise.
"My quilt! Quilt!" His tail is no longer a mermaid's tail, the front and back are the same!
Fan Yuan took a Band-Aid and put it on him, then he let go and tightened the lid of the medicine.
"What are you hiding? I have what you have."
Gu Yang rolled himself into the quilt, revealing a pair of eyes staring at Fan Yuan. After hearing this, he glared at Fan Yuan angrily, his eyes shining brightly.
Fan Yuan ignored him, turned off the lights and went to bed.
Two people were lying on a small single bed. The quilt had been rolled away by Gu Yang. Fan Yuan did not grab it, but just lay there quietly, and his breathing soon became steady.
Gu Yang was wrapped in the quilt and was a little nervous. He hadn't put on any clothes yet!
The clothes were on the other side, and if he wanted to look for them he had to go over Fan Yuan.
Gu Yang felt around in the dark, and when he touched Fan Yuan's arm, he suddenly withdrew his hand, gathered the quilt together and lay down.
He comforted himself that if he slept more peacefully, the quilt wouldn't fall off!
Late at night, the only sounds in the room were the breathing of two people.
The quilt roll squeezed in the corner suddenly hummed twice, crawled out from the quilt, and stretched out its hands to touch around. When it touched Fan Yuan beside it, it immediately wrapped its hands and feet around him.
Fan Yuan paused for a moment, raised his hand and rubbed Gu Yang's soft hair, then reached out and pulled the quilt to cover both of them.
There was a scream in the room early in the morning, and Fan Yuan was kicked off the bed by Gu Yang.
Fan Yuan fell to the ground, raised his hand to rub his hair, narrowed his eyes, and looked at Gu Yang with a little oppression.
Gu Yang wrapped himself tightly in the quilt with a red face, his back pressed against the wall, looking like a pitiful little being being persecuted.
"How come you hold me while sleeping?"
Fan Yuan stared at Gu Yang for a long time, and Gu Yang hid his face in the quilt, leaving only a pair of eyes. However, all ten toes were exposed, stepping on each other, showing the owner's nervousness.
Fan Yuan stood up from the ground, smoothed his hair back and made a sound of "tut".
He walked to the bed, knelt on one knee, and extended his hand to Gu Yang.
Gu Yang was so scared that he raised his foot to kick, but Fan Yuan grabbed his ankle and pulled him under his body.
Now Gu Yang couldn't run away and could only grab the quilt and stare wide-eyed.
Fan Yuan seemed a little grumpy as he was waking up. He looked Gu Yang up and down with his dark eyes, then smiled at him.
His smile was ferocious and scary. He said, "Gu Yang, do you know that you cried and asked me to hold you in my arms to sleep last night?"
Gu Yang's hand that was holding the quilt loosened and he opened his mouth stupidly: "Ah?"
Fan Yuan stretched out his fingers and hooked the short hair by Gu Yang's ear in circles again and again, his voice low and threatening.
"I pushed you away, but you insisted on squeezing in for me to hug you. I hugged you, and you treated me like this? Kicked me out of bed so early in the morning?"
Gu Yang was a little skeptical: "Really?"
Fan Yuan narrowed his eyes: "Every time you turned into a mermaid, you asked me to hold you, don't you remember?"
Gu Yang tilted his head, as if that was indeed the case, so what he did was definitely wrong!
Fan Yuan changed his hand that was around Gu Yang's short hair to pinch his ear.
"You remember?"
Gu Yang nodded.
Fan Yuan then stood up slightly, supported himself on the bed with his arms, and asked Gu Yang in a suggestive tone.
"So what should you say to me?"
Gu Yang pursed his lips and whispered, "Thank you."
Fan Yuan tilted his ear: "What?"
Gu Yang raised his voice a little: "Thank you! Thank you... for hugging me."
Fan Yuan smiled and completely let go of Gu Yang.
"good."
Gu Yang watched Fan Yuan turn around and go wash up, and scratched his head in confusion.
I always feel like something is wrong, yet nothing seems to be wrong
He glanced at the favorability level on the palm of his left hand. It was still 11 points, not an increase of one point.
Is it because he's too clingy
So Fan Yuan felt impatient
Gu Yang felt a little panicked, and while Fan Yuan was washing with his back to him, he climbed out of the quilt and put on his clothes.
Fan Yuan was brushing his teeth in front of the mirror. He saw Gu Yang jumping out of the quilt naked in the mirror and raised his eyebrows.
They were going to return today. On the plane, Gu Yang sat obediently in his seat and did not talk to Fan Yuan the whole time.
He felt that he was too clingy and needed to restrain himself, otherwise Fan Yuan's favorability would not increase.
Gu Yang didn't talk to Fan Yuan, and Fan Yuan didn't take the initiative to talk to Gu Yang.
The two were silent throughout the whole process until they left the airport. Gu Yang's heart suddenly trembled violently, and a strong sense of crisis surged into his heart. He raised his hand to look at the countdown on the golden finger. There were still seven days left.
Something seems to be going to happen in these seven days.
Gu Yang immediately reached out and tugged at the corner of Fan Yuan's clothes. Fan Yuan turned around and fell into his arms halfway through his words.
"What's wrong? You don't want to talk to me... Gu Yang?!"
Gu Yang fainted and lost consciousness right after leaving the airport. Fortunately, Fan Yuan was prepared and immediately took off his clothes and wrapped Gu Yang's legs, preventing him from turning into a mermaid in the street and being reported on social news.
Gu Yang fainted and didn't wake up until late at night. Even though he woke up, he didn't feel well.
He felt hot and burning all over, with slight pain in his body. His fish tail slapped the bathtub uncomfortably, knocking out all the water in the bathtub.
Gu Yang frowned and looked at the empty bathroom. The water in the bathtub was warm, but there was no one in the bathroom.
"Fan Yuan? Fan Yuan?" Gu Yang called out repeatedly, his voice small, soft and weak.
But Fan Yuan came in quickly with warm porridge in his hand.
"Gu Yang, you finally woke up, what happened to you?"
Fan Yuan sat on the small stool next to the bathtub and handed the bowl of porridge to Gu Yang.
Gu Yang pushed the bowl of porridge away with disgust and instead grabbed Fan Yuan's hand. He rubbed his cheek against Fan Yuan's palm and closed his eyes comfortably.
Fan Yuan withdrew his hand, scooped a spoonful of porridge and handed it to Gu Yang's mouth.
"Eat something first. You've been lying down all day."
Gu Yang closed his mouth tightly and refused to eat. He stared at Fan Yuan with wet eyes, looking pitiful.
"Fan Yuan, I feel uncomfortable."
Fan Yuan could only put the bowl of porridge aside and let Gu Yang grab his hand and put it against his hot cheek again.
"Gu Yang, what's wrong with you? Why did you suddenly turn into a mermaid? Is it because of the breeding season? How long will your breeding season last?"
Fan Yuan's questions one after another gave Gu Yang a headache. His brain was in a mess and he felt that he couldn't live without water and Fan Yuan.
He had a vague guess that this situation might be caused by the golden finger being about to fail and the final wave of side effects.
Gu Yang spread out his left palm, showing the remaining time of the golden finger: six days.
Six days
Gu Yang grabbed Fan Yuan's hand and shook it: "Didn't we go to class?"
Fan Yuan shook his head: "How can you go to class like this? I asked for leave for you."
Gu Yang raised the corner of his mouth, lowered his head and pressed his lips against Fan Yuan's palm, feeling very happy.
"You didn't go to class either."
Fan Yuan felt as if his palm was burned, and he immediately pulled his hand back behind his back.
"You can't seem to leave me. You feel uncomfortable when I go far away."
Fan Yuan expressed his guess, his dark eyes carefully observing Gu Yang's reaction.
Unexpectedly, Gu Yang nodded very honestly. He leaned on the edge of the bathtub, put his hands around Fan Yuan's neck, and pressed his wet cheek against Fan Yuan's, rubbing it dependently.
"Well, I can't leave you."