The Man Who Appears Once a Year

Chapter 25

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Ruan Qiuping only felt a bolt of thunder strike his brain with a crackling sound, making him dizzy. It felt like there was a fire burning in his head, and a group of children were surrounding the fire and throwing firecrackers at it. The noise and chaos were so loud that he had no time to think.

At that moment, his eyes fell on Yu Huan's right hand which was still on his cheek.

In an instant, he regained some common sense and pushed Yu Huan away.

Yu Huan was pushed unexpectedly and staggered, nearly falling. Fortunately, he managed to stand up by holding on to the table beside him.

Then, he saw Ruan Qiuping's face flushed red, and he shouted angrily: "Yu Huan, what are you doing?!"

Yu Huan had almost never seen Ruan Qiuping like this. Looking at Ruan Qiuping's angry eyes, he felt his heart suddenly turn cold.

His throat moved, but he didn't say anything. He just tightly gripped the crutch in his arms.

He knew that Ruan Ruan had no romantic feelings for him.

He also knew that it was all because of his own delusion and greed.

He thought that this action might destroy the relationship between him and Ruan Ruan, and perhaps Ruan Ruan would avoid him and never come to see him again.

But Yu Huan regretted it.

He just did what he wanted to do when he was fifteen.

He had endured it for seventeen years and could not endure it any longer.

He will bear any consequences.

Then, he heard Ruan Qiuping speak, angrily saying to him: "Are you going to die? How dare you touch me? How dare you...how dare you kiss me! Do you know how obscure this is? Didn't you learn enough from the lesson you learned at that time? Do you remember it even after something happened? You have already...already lost your legs, what else do you want to lose? Next, do you want to lose your life too?!"

Yu Huan was stunned. He looked at Ruan Qiuping and asked, "... Ruan Ruan, I kissed you, but this is all you thought about?"

"Only?" Ruan Qiuping almost gritted his teeth and said, "Do you think these are nothing? Do you think these things are important? If you think these are important, then why did I try so hard to hold back and come to see you some time ago?!"

Yu Huan felt that he was seriously ill.

Ruan Ruan said a lot of things in such an angry way, but he only heard Ruan Ruan say that she came to see him some time ago and she was just trying to endure it.

But in order not to provoke Ruan Qiuping again, he did not show any happy expression, but said seriously: "I don't think these things are important."

"Then why do you still do this?" Ruan Qiuping frowned.

Yu Huan sincerely apologized and said, "I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself."

Ruan Qiuping: “…”

Ruan Qiuping felt that something was strange, but actually... actually he didn't want Yu Huan to apologize. He just wanted Yu Huan to be more careful and pay more attention to his health and life.

Ruan Qiuping opened his mouth and was about to say something when he suddenly noticed a number of strange heads popping out from behind the wall at the corner of the restaurant.

The waiters were looking at them secretly, their faces full of surprise.

When they met Ruan Qiuping's gaze, they all hurriedly turned their heads away.

Ruan Qiuping: “…”

How long had those people been watching there

He almost forgot that this was a restaurant, a public place, and he and Yu Huan...

Ruan Qiuping suddenly felt his face flush.

He lowered his head and said to Yu Huan, "Let's go. Let's go back first."

Yu Huan followed him closely.

Ruan Qiuping looked at the two people's shoulders that were almost touching each other as they walked, frowned, took a big step forward, and said, "That's it, let's just keep a distance of one meter."

Yu Huan: "Ruan Ruan clearly promised me that she doesn't need to keep her distance."

Ruan Qiuping glanced at him and said, "I told you that if you touch me again, I will never come again. I don't need to come again tomorrow, right?"

Yu Huan: “…”

Yu Huan silently took a step back and said, "... Ruan Ruan goes first."

Ruan Qiuping walked out of the restaurant and stopped involuntarily as he looked at the vehicles coming and going in front of him.

"How do you leave?" Yu Huan asked him one meter away from him.

Ruan Qiuping turned his head and glanced at Yu Huan, his expression very conflicted: "I'm afraid you'll get hit by a car."

Yu Huan just kissed him, his luck must be extremely bad, and he was sure to encounter some accident on the road.

When he thought of this place, Ruan Qiuping felt a little panicked. He asked Yu Huan, "Is your home far from here?"

"It's a bit far. It takes 20 minutes to drive there." Yu Huan replied, "Why don't we continue playing? It's still early."

"What are you still playing for? Are you lucky enough to play outside with your current status? It's safest to stay at home."

"Then I'll ask the driver to come over."

Ruan Qiuping just nodded, then shook his head hurriedly: "No, driving is not very safe, and there is a high possibility of accidents. Is there any safer means of transportation?"

Yu Huan thought for a moment, then pointed to the subway entrance in the distance and said, "Then let's take the subway back. The chances of something happening on the subway are extremely small."

"‌."

It is not yet the rush hour, so there are not many passengers on the subway, but even so, it is still difficult to find an empty seat.

Ruan Qiuping and Yu Huan just stood side by side, holding a handrail.

It was probably an illusion, but Ruan Qiuping always felt that someone was watching them.

"Yu Huan." Ruan Qiuping touched his face and asked in a low voice, "Did anything stick to my face when I was eating just now?"

"No." Yu Huan said.

"Strange..." Ruan Qiuping muttered, "Then why do they always look at me?"

Those people just stared at him, looking at the phone and then at him, as if they were comparing something.

After exiting the subway, Ruan Qiuping thought more and more that something was right, and said to Yu Huan, "Yu Huan, let me use the phone for a while."

Although there are no such things as telescopes in heaven, Yu Huan taught Ruan Qiuping how to use telescopes when he was eight years old, and he still knows how to use them.

Ruan Qiuping took the phone from Yu Huan and asked, "Why is it turned on? Is it out of battery?"

"There is electricity, but it's noisy, so I turned on the power," said Yu Huan.

… How noisy can it be!

Ruan Qiuping muttered and turned on the phone.

After the machine was turned on, it immediately started to vibrate.

Countless dialog boxes popped up on the phone. Ruan Qiuping clicked on one and immediately saw three news links with shocking headlines.

"Surprise! The reason why Yu Huan of Guilai Group has been single for many years is because of him!! "

"The founder of Guilai Group is deeply involved in a homosexual scandal. Click to see Yu Huannian's love affair!"

"Yu Huan's homosexuality exposed! The two kissed passionately in their own restaurant!"

Ruan Qiuping clicked on the last piece of news with trembling hands, and a photo suddenly came into view.

The photo seemed to be taken on the building opposite the restaurant. Although it was blurry, you could still see that the two were kissing.

Ruan Qiuping was so frightened that he almost dropped the phone. He spoke fluently: "Yu, Yu Huan... was... photographed."

"What was photographed?"

"That, just...just..." Those two words seemed to be burning his lips, and Ruan Qiuping couldn't say them at all.

He was so anxious that he threw the phone to Yu Huan: "Look for yourself!"

Yu Huan took the phone and frowned. The phone happened to ring at that moment. Yu Huan answered the phone, whispered a few words to the person on the other end of the phone, then hung up the phone and continued to talk.

"Ruan Ruan, don't worry, everything has been handled."

Ruan Qiuping breathed a sigh of relief and complained in a low voice: "It's all your fault. How could you do that kind of thing outside... outside."

"Then can we do it at home?" Yu Huan asked.

"Of course you can!" Ruan Qiuping said, "Have you forgotten again? You are forbidden to contact me! You will be in big trouble!!"

"If you're going to be unlucky, Ruan Ruan, do you mind if I touch you?"

"Of course I don't mind."

"Would Ruan Ruan mind if I kissed you?"

Ruan Qiuping was stunned for a moment, then said blankly: "... I don't know."

Yu Huan took a step forward, lowered his head and looked at Ruan Qiuping, and asked, "Then let me put it another way. When I kissed you, did Ruan Ruan feel disgusted?"

"... don't... don't ask." Ruan Qiuping suddenly felt his ears getting hot. He took a step back involuntarily and said, "At that time, I was only afraid that you would touch me and I would be in trouble. I didn't think about anything else. Don't... don't ask."

Ruan Qiuping looked up at the villa in the distance and hurriedly changed the subject: "Your house is about to be completed, is that the one you want to build?"

"Um."

"Then let's go."

Yu Huan lowered his eyes and followed Ruan Qiuping forward.

After returning home, Ruan Qiuping asked Yu Huan to play several games to test his luck.

For example, drawing lots, tossing a coin, or drawing poker cards.

After testing for nearly an hour, Ruan Qiuping finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Even though Yu Huan had kissed him not long ago, and even though he was still staying by Yu Huan's side, Yu Huan's luck was still very strong.

Especially when he held the fragment of the lucky god, he would always draw the king when drawing poker cards and the best lot when drawing lots.

Even after he put down the fragment, his luck was still very good. When playing poker, he would always get a trump card out of every three cards he drew. Although he always got a good lot when drawing lots, he also always got a bad lot.

"It's been like this since 15 years ago," Yu Huan said. "Before I was 17, I never won a game of rock-paper-scissors with him. After I turned 17, I never lost a game of rock-paper-scissors with him."

Ruan Qiuping collected the testing supplies on the table one by one, and the stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.

Sure enough, after he took the drop of blood from Yu Huan's ear bone more than ten years ago, his luck of being a lucky god descending to the world recovered a little.

"Ruan Ruan, you can see that even if I kiss you, my luck is still above normal." Yu Huan paused and continued, "Even so, can I still touch you?"

"Of course." Ruan Qiuping said, "You will always be unlucky if you bump into me. Even if you have good luck, if you bump into me too often, your good luck will be worn away, and you will become an unlucky person again."

"What if I get into trouble?"

"What if it happens? Can you guarantee it?"

"Just give it a try." After Yu Huan finished speaking, he put the fragment on the table into his pocket. Then he led Ruan Qiuping with one hand and took the sticks from the lottery bucket with the other hand.

Ruan Qiuping wanted to push him away directly, but when she saw his actions, she suddenly stopped.

He stared at the stick that Yu Huan pulled out without blinking, and his heart seemed to be stretched tight.

Yu Huan took out the skewer and slowly turned it over.

—A medium to low sign.

Ruan Qiuping felt that the string broke silently in the air.

He pulled out his hair, lowered his eyelids, and said calmly, "See."

"See." Yu Huan once again tightened his grip on Ruan Qiuping's hands, inserted his five fingers into his fingers, and interlocked his ten fingers.

Yu Huan's voice was tinged with a gentle smile like the spring breeze: "Ruan Ruan, I touched you, and it was both a bad fortune, a bad fortune, and a medium fortune. I am very happy."

"What's there to be happy about?" Ruan Qiuping frowned, "What's the point of signing a middle or lower lottery?"

"But there is no such thing as a bad lottery. It's just a little bit better than ordinary luck, such as winning a participation prize in a lottery or buying a defective item. These are just harmless things. I have no reason to give up Ruan Ruan because of these trivial things."

"But..."

"There's nothing to worry about. It's normal to make choices and lose. I just chose you over the other lucky guy. Since it's my own choice, it means that for me, Ruan Ruan is worth more than all the lucky guys."

"Now that I know that touching Ruan Ruan will not bring me any disaster, I want to ask Ruan Ruan again." Yu Huan twisted Ruan Qiuping's shoulders and almost forced him to look at him, "Does Ruan Ruan hate kissing me?"

“… ‌Disgusting.”

"Does Ruan Ruan like to kiss me?"

"… ‌… ‌‌ Dao."

Yu Huan smiled lightly, his dark pupils seemed to be filled with flowing light: "But I like it very much. Ruan Ruan is a fairy and I am a mortal. Ruan Ruan will accommodate me for a while."

Ruan Qiuping was stunned for a moment, feeling that this conversation seemed familiar.

Yu Huan rested his forehead against Ruan Qiuping's and asked very gently, "What do you think, Ruan Ruan?"

Yu Huan's voice was so gentle and soft that it was impossible for him to refuse.

Ruan Qiuping nodded almost involuntarily and said blankly, "Yes."

The corners of Yu Huan's lips immediately curved up slightly, as if he was filled with countless smiles. He closed his eyes, rubbed Ruan Qiuping's nose lightly, and then kissed her gently and lingeringly.