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The Little Merman - Chapter 48

Published at 14th of December 2022 06:31:09 AM


Chapter 48

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On the huge electronic screen by the river, the countdown to the firework show was being displayed. As the time got closer, more and more people gathered from nearby, there were even traffic jams around, and the traffic police evacuated traffic nearby. Worried that Qin Shen would not be able to find himself when he came, Jiang Yu followed the crowd and stood under the incomparably conspicuous and iconic electronic screen by the river.

He wore a thick hat with a down jacket, surrounded by a scarf that Fang Miao and he exchanged, covering most of his face, without worrying about being recognized by the people around him.

In the last twenty minutes, the surrounding crowd began to surge, all trying to squeeze into the best position in front. Jiang Yu staggered and looked down. Just now Qin Shen sent a message that he had arrived, but he didn’t see any familiar figures in the crowd.

In the crowded place, Jiang Yu was squeezed so hard that he was almost taken away from the pillar under the electronic screen, but suddenly someone came up behind him, reached out, and took his wrist, using his own body to shield him from the crowd surging behind him.

Jiang Yu didn’t need to turn his head to detect the familiar scent of the person behind him, he reached out and slightly pulled down his scarf, and turned around with difficulty to face the person coming.

“How long have you been waiting here?” Qin Shen circled him between the pillar and himself, held his cold hand, rubbed them in his warm palms, lowered his head to them, and breathed.

There were people all around, and most of them were couples. Jiang Yu was a little embarrassed and wanted to take his hand out of his palms. Noticing that Qin Shen was only wearing a coat, he quickly said, “Are you cold? I’ll put this scarf on you.”

After saying that he took the opportunity to break away from the hand, untie his own neck scarf, and raised his arms to tie it around his neck.

“Where did this come from?” Qin Shen reached out, touched the scarf, and opened his mouth to ask.

Jiang Yu said sheepishly, “…… I exchange it with Miao Miao. He liked the oneyou gave me.”

Worried that he might get angry, Jiang Yu carefully looked at his face, but instead, he saw him give a laugh and said rather pleasantly, “Good. It’s exactly the same as the one I have.”

Jiang Yu does not understand what he was so happy about just because they were the same. It was not until he saw that around him were several pairs of couples wearing the same clothes in an intimate attitude that he vaguely got some understanding and his cheeks became slightly warm.

The other end of the scarf was suddenly pulled by Qin Shen and put it around him. The scarf was very long and it was more than enough for two people.

There were still five minutes left in the countdown. There were curious eyes around the two of them, so Jiang Yu bowed his head in embarrassment. Qin Shen looked into his eyes, pondered for a moment, stretched out his hand, and opened his coat to wrap Jiang Yu in his arms.

Wrapped in the man’s warm coat, with his side face pressed against the man’s warm chest, Jiang Yu was stunned. At this moment, all the surrounding noise retreated, and the whole world seemed to be the only two of them left.

“Bang” There was the sound of fireworks blooming on the other side, Jiang Yu leaned against Qin Shen’s arms, stretched out his hand to peel off a little of his coat, and looked towards the other side, countless gorgeous fireworks burst into the air one after another. For the first time, seeing such a beautiful scene, Jiang Yu stared blankly for a moment before realizing that something was different around him. The couples around were all hugging and kissing.

Every Christmas, there will be a firework show on the other side of the river. Couples kissing under the blooming fireworks has become a customary tradition.

Jiang Yu was watching in awe when Qin Shen reached out and lifted his chin and whispered, “Do you want to try?”

Without waiting for him to react, Qin Shen’s handsome and profound face was enlarged in front of him, and his lips were tenderly held.

When he was released, the fireworks on the other side were still blooming. While the surrounding crowd was still immersed in kisses and didn’t pay attention, Qin Shen pulled him away from the river and went to the car.

When they got into the car, Jiang Yu just sat down; however, Qin Shen leaned over from the driver’s seat again and pressed him for another kiss. Jiang Yu put his hands on his shoulders, first pushing back, then slowly relaxing. The phone in his pocket suddenly rang, and Jiang Yu came to his senses and hurriedly pushed Qin Shen with all his strength.

Qin Shen was still not done letting go of him, so he reached out to take out the phone from his pocket, the caller ID was from Fang Miao. Qin Shen didn’t hesitate to press it off. Jiang Yu was quick to grab the phone and shrunk to the car window to answer it, “Hello, Miao Miao.”

Fang Miao asked on the phone, “Xiao Yu, I’m back from my business, and I went to look for you; your assistant said you haven’t come back yet, you’re still alone by the river?”

After saying that, there was a pause and wondered, “What are you doing? Why do you sound so breathless?”

Jiang Yu blushed explosively and hurriedly said, “There are too many people over here, so it’s not easy to get a taxi. I had to run for a while to get one.”

“Today is a holiday, so it is quite difficult to get a taxi over there.” Fang Miao did not doubt and said, “Then you hurry back. I brought you good food.”

“Mmmmmmmmm, I’ll be right back.” Jiang Yu answered and hung up the phone.

He turned his head and saw Qin Shen looking at him with a somewhat unpleasant face.

“…… I’m going back.” Jiang Yu gulped, and seeing Qin Shen’s stern face without speaking, added in a small voice, “Miao Miao is waiting for me.”

It’s okay not to say this, but Qin Shen’s face turned even darker when he said it, and he was a little uncomfortable: “You and Miao Miao have a good relationship.”

Jiang Yu curled his eyes and smiled, reaching out and pulling Qin Shen’s sleeve, “Are you going to send me back?”

Qin Shen sighed and leaned over to fasten his seatbelt, reached out, rubbed his head, and drove in the direction of Film City.

When he reached the entrance of the hotel, Jiang Yu unbuckled his seat belt but didn’t rush to get out of the car, instead he hesitantly looked at Qin Shen.

“What’s wrong?” Qin Shen looked at him with a soft gaze and misunderstood his meaning, “I’m not angry, do you have time tomorrow? I’ll pick you up and have dinner together.”

Jiang Yu pursed his lips and nodded, then his gaze bounced around Qin Shen’s face for a moment, first on his forehead, then on his chin, until he finally made up his mind. He suddenly went over and gave him a kiss on the chin, then pushed open the car door and fled into the hotel.

Startled by his sudden action, Qin Shen reached out and touched his chin, then smiled, picked up his mobile phone, and sent a message out.

Jiang Yu ran into the elevator in one breath, patted his fast-beating chest, and felt the phone in his pocket vibrate. He took it out to see what it was, and it was a message from Qin Shen, which read, “Next time remember to kiss a little higher.”

Higher? Jiang Yu foolishly put his finger on his chin and moved it upwards, touching his lips. At the sudden understanding, the redness that has still not disappeared returned once again.

Back in the room, Fang Miao was playing cards with his own assistant and Jiang Yu’s assistant on the sofa. Fang Miao seemed to have lost a lot, with white notes on his face, and when he saw Jiang Yu coming back, he quickly waved to him, “Yu’er, come and help me, my luck is so bad today. I’ve played more than a dozen times, but haven’t won even once.”

When the crew was free, everyone liked to play cards together. The first time Jiang Yu played cards was taught by Fang Miao. Fang Miao’s card skills were poor, so he wanted to find someone with even worse card skills to escape from the last place. Unexpectedly, he taught Jiang Yu once, and Jiang Yu quickly became an invincible player in the crew. Later, when the crew saw Jiang Yu passing by playing cards, they all threw away the cards and fled, willing to be defeated.

Sure enough, once Jiang Yu went over, Fang Miao won a hand. The two assistants said nothing, and Fang Miao gave a note to each of them before letting them go.

“There were so many cupcakes at the event, and I know you like to eat sweet things, so I brought back a few for you as well.” Fang Miao opened the carton on the table and saw Jiang Yu take off his down jacket and put it on the sofa, “Huh? Yu’er, where is the scarf around your neck? When we went out. You still had it with you. Why is it gone?”

Jiang Yu stiffened for a moment; the scarf was thrown to the back seat of the car. He ran too fast when he got off and forgot to take it back.

“…… forgot when I got off ……” he said vaguely.

Fang Miao thought he had forgotten it in the cab and said, “It’s okay. I’ll ask my mom to knit you another one. She’s not busy now anyway.”

Jiang Yu smiled sheepishly.

Fang Miao sat in his room for a while and then went back to her room. Jiang Yu washed up, lay down on the bed, read the script for a while, and then also quickly went to sleep.

It snowed in the middle of the night, and when he woke up the next morning, it was all white outside the window. The movie was almost finished, so there were just a few indoor scenes left to wrap up. Jiang Yu finished a scene and just got off the set when he saw Lin Cheng walk in from outside the studio.

   “Cheng Cheng.” Jiang Yu called out happily and ran towards him. He was busy shooting the movie and Lin Cheng was busy promoting his album everywhere, so counting up, they hadn’t seen each other for more than two months.

“Look at your face turning red.” Lin Cheng touched his face, then took his hand and put it in his pocket.

“Why did you come back without telling me.” Jiang Yu happily pulled him to the chair and sat down.

Lin Cheng smiled and said, “I finished my album. I purposely did not tell you to give you a surprise. By the way, at what time do you wrap up? I’ll wait for you to have dinner together.”

“I can wrap up at five o’clock, last time Miao Miao and I found a particularly delicious hot pot fish restaurant. I’ll take you to eat.” Jiang Yu said happily, “You don’t have to leave tonight, sleep with me.”

“Sure.” Lin Cheng smiled and nodded his head.

When the afternoon was over, Jiang Yu asked Lin Cheng to wait outside while he went to the dressing room to change his clothes. Just after changing, Qin Shen’s call came.

“Have you finished work? I’ll pick you up for dinner.” Qin Shen motioned to his assistant to let the employees outside get off work early, walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows, and looked at the fluttering snowflakes outside.

Jiang Yu bit his lip in chagrin, he was too happy that Lin Cheng had come, and momentarily forgot about yesterday’s promise to have dinner with Qin Shen.

“…… Cheng Cheng came back and asked me to have dinner with him. I…I was too happy, so I forgot……” he stammered and spoke sheepishly.

Qin Shen’s face was dark, “Once he came back, you forgot the promise to have dinner with me?”

Jiang Yu weakly apologized, “Sorry, ah, or tomorrow? I definitely won’t forget tomorrow.”

Qin Shen was silent for a moment, Jiang Yu thought he was upset since he was busy, so he continued to apologize, “I was wrong, you you don’t get angry ……”

  Hearing his pitiful voice, Qin Shen could not harden his heart to be angry, sighed, “Then tomorrow.”

After hanging up the phone, Qin Shen felt very uncomfortable. Fang Miao and Lin Cheng were so important people in the young man’s heart.

The assistant knocked on the door and came in, asking for instructions, “Mr. Qin, everyone is off work, when are you leaving?”

Qin Shen turned around and asked, “Has everyone left already?”

The assistant said, “Not yet.”

Qin Shen said with a stern face, “Then let them all come back. What the hell did you do with that program this afternoon? Revise it again and bring it to me.”

After eating, Jiang Yu and Lin Cheng went back to the hotel. After taking a bath, they lay in the quilt, talking head-to-head. The two have not seen each other for such a long time, and there were endless things to talk about. Halfway through, Lin Cheng got up and said, “Yu’er, let me see the fish eggs in your stomach.”

Jiang Yu lifted the hem of his pajamas to let him see. Lin Cheng touched his soft little belly and put his ear to it for a moment and said, “It’s about time for them to be born.”

Jiang Yu nodded, his grandfather said that mermaid pregnancy and human were different. They only need about six months to give birth. He came ashore in the summer and counting the time it was almost five months, plus the previous month, almost half a year.

Lin Cheng asked, “You quietly slipped into Qin Shen’s house and were not discovered, right?”

Jiang Yu had told Lin Cheng before that Qin Shen was Fang Miao’s older brother, he and Fang Miao became friends, and Fang Miao often took him to Qin Shen’s house.

Jiang Yu scratched his head, embarrassed: “I ……I was found ……”

“What?!” Lin Cheng’s eyes widened. Jiang Yu did not tell him these things.

Jiang Yu didn’t want to hide it from Lin Cheng, so he whispered the fact that Qin Shen had found out that he was the one on the cruise ship that night.

Hearing that he had been drugged, Lin Cheng sighed and said, “So you slept with him again?”

Jiang Yu blushed red and buried his head into the pillow.

Lin Cheng rubbed his head and said, “Just sleep with him. He’s single and you’re single anyway. And the fish eggs are about to be born, so you sleep with him a few more times. It will also enable the fish egg to be born smoothly.”

“But,” Lin Cheng paused and admonished, “Sleeping is sleeping. You can’t fall for him.”

Jiang Yu froze and lifted his head to look at him in confusion.

“Really, Yu’er, you can’t fall in love with him.” Lin Cheng said seriously, “Don’t forget that even if we are like humans, we are not humans. Once you like a human, you will expose yourself after spending time together, and exposing yourself ……”

Looking at Jiang Yu’s ignorant eyes, Lin Cheng stopped before he finished speaking, and sighed: “Tomorrow I have something to do. I will take you to a place the day after tomorrow, and then you will understand.”

“Did you hear that, you can only sleep with him, but you can’t like him. Don’t be shy, for the birth of the fish eggs, you sleep with him more. By the way, how is his technique? He didn’t hurt you, right?” Lin Cheng babbled a lot in his ear, Jiang Yu’s face flushed, and he quickly forgot what Lin Cheng had just said.

The next day Lin Cheng left, saying that he would come back for him the day after tomorrow when he had time. In the afternoon, Qin Shen drove to the set not far away and called Jiang Yu to say he had arrived.

Jiang Yu changed his clothes, set aside his assistant, and quietly slipped out of the studio and got into the car. Fang Miao wanted to go back to the hotel with him and followed him out, just in time to see him get into a car and leave. Fang Miao squinted and wondered, why does this car look like his brother’s?

Qin Shen knew he loved fish and seafood, so he took him to a Japanese restaurant and ordered several sashimis. Jiang Yu came out with a full stomach and asked Qin Shen, “What are we going to do now?”

Qin Shen pondered deeply for a moment and said, “Watch a movie?”

Before he came out, he checked the Internet to find things to do on a date, and he found out that it was mostly watching movies after eating.

  Jiang Yu nodded, and the two of them headed upstairs to the movie theater.

The two of them didn’t know much about the movies being shown in the theater, and remembering that the internet said that on a date it should be a romance movie, Qin Shen casually chose a romance movie with the closest venue.

The seats were couple seats and the movie started not much longer. Qin Shen lost interest fast and turned his head to see Jiang Yu, but found the young man’s head a little bit to the side; he was dozing off.

Qin Shen couldn’t help but let out a low laugh and reached out to put his arms around him. The air conditioning in the movie theater was on and both of them took off their coats when they came in, so Qin Shen took his own to cover him.

When Jiang Yu woke up, he found himself lying in Qin Shen’s arms, and Qin Shen’s cell phone was faintly lit, and he was answering emails with his head down. Feeling the movement in his arms, Qin Shen put away his phone and asked in a low voice: “Awake from your sleep?”

Surprisingly, he had accidentally fallen asleep. Jiang Yu rubbed his eyes and said embarrassingly, “Well, how long did I sleep?”

Qin Shen lifted his wrist to check his watch, “More than an hour, the movie is almost over.”

The sound of girls being moved to tears and the low comforting sounds of their boyfriends came from all around. Qin Shen took Jiang Yu’s coat and put it on him, then put on his. When the end of the movie sounded and the lights came on, he picked up the still dazed Jiang Yu and walked straight outside.

It was snowing again outside, and when he got into the car, Jiang Yu took a look at the time and yawned, “It’s late, where else are we going?”

Qin Shen leaned over to fasten his seat belt, his thumb rubbed against the corner of his lips, his eyes were deep, his voice was magnetic, “My home.”

Jiang Yu swallowed softly, inexplicably remembering what Lin Cheng said last night, and he couldn’t help but put his fingers on his lower abdomen.

In less than an hour, the car pulled up to the community floor. Qin Shen brought him to the house near Xingying Media.

Following Qin Shen into the elevator, Jiang Yu’s heart beat fast as he watched the numbers on the elevator go by. After entering the door, Qin Shen turned on the air conditioner in the room, reached out and rubbed Jiang Yu’s head, pushed him upstairs, “Go take a bath.”

Jiang Yu’s previous pajamas were still left here, and he came out after showering before Qin Shen went in.

The quilt on the bed was already spread out, and Jiang Yu jumped on the bed, wrapped in the quilt, listening to the sound of water coming from the bathroom, and feeling apprehensive. The first two times he was not awake, but this time ……

The sound of water in the bathroom stopped as he was thinking. Jiang Yu turned his back in the direction of the bathroom and nervously bit his finger. He heard Qin Shen walk to the bed, turned off the light in the room, then lifted the quilt, got into bed, and took him into his arms.

Jiang Yu waited for a while, but did not see the person behind him move, and could not help but wonder, did Qin Shen just bring him to simply sleep?

He quietly turned back to look at the person behind him. Qin Shen noticed the young man in his arms moving, opened his eyes, and asked, “What’s wrong? Can’t sleep?”

Thinking that he had misunderstood, Jiang Yu was embarrassed and lowered his eyelashes, his face a little hot: “No, no.”

Hearing the young man’s heartfelt voice, and thinking about the young man’s unnatural behavior when he got out of the car. Qin Shen understood and laughed lightly, “What do you think I brought you here for?”

It was too late, and it was more convenient to come here than to return to the crew, so he brought the young man over for the night. Unexpectedly, his thoughts got crooked.

He couldn’t help but reach out and gently pinch the young man’s waist, the palm of his hand to the young man’s belly on the soft flesh. He was a little puzzled, it’s not like he was eating a lot, and he haven’t seen any flesh on other parts of his body, so why is there a circle of soft flesh growing out of the lower part of his abdomen?

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