TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 10
by VolareLu Yunzhou tended to the fire, gradually building it up until he finally felt a bit of warmth.
Seeing Xie YunChuan still sitting there motionlessly, Lu Yunzhou asked in confusion, “What’s wrong with you? Just making yourself comfortable here? Aren’t you going to call your precious Luo Shuyou over?”
“Did you two have a fight?”
Xie YunChuan remained sitting upright, replying calmly, “He doesn’t feel the cold.”
Lu Yunzhou was speechless. “Do you hear what you’re saying? Is this some kind of subjective idealism where not feeling cold means you literally don’t feel the cold?”
He wondered secretly if they really had fought. It shouldn’t be!
He continued, “It’s normal for couples to bicker, but arguing is arguing, fighting is fighting, don’t play around with your health.”
“Don’t be stubborn, go and coax him.”
Xie YunChuan didn’t budge. “No need. Just take care of yourself.”
Recalling what happened before, and now seeing Xie YunChuan’s abnormal behavior, Lu Yunzhou’s expression changed. He said in a low voice, “Something happened?”
The question came out of nowhere, but Xie YunChuan immediately understood what he meant. “No.”
Lu Yunzhou clearly didn’t believe him. “Really? You don’t have to hide it from me. You wouldn’t allow it, and I couldn’t do anything to him, could I?”
Xie YunChuan looked at Lu Yunzhou as if he were an idiot. “Lie to you? Is there a need? Can this kind of thing be hidden?
Not everyone is like you, enjoying doing things that are completely meaningless.”
Lu Yunzhou thought about it, and it was true since he was right here.
“Then what’s going on? It can’t be that he really doesn’t feel the cold just because he says so, right?”
Xie YunChuan wished he knew what was going on, so he wouldn’t have to be so jumpy and suspicious all the time. He just didn’t know.
“I don’t know. Anyway, he’s not cold, mind your own business.”
“Fine, my bad for saying too much.”
Lu Yunzhou pouted. Alright, he should worry less about their relationship issues.
Looking at the snow falling harder and harder outside, Lu Yunzhou asked reluctantly, “Do you really have no other food reserves?”
Xie YunChuan: “I could.”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“Aren’t you one?”
Lu Yunzhou chuckled awkwardly. “That’s not an appropriate joke. I’m already cold enough, I don’t want to hear cold jokes.”
“If you don’t want to hear it, shut up. If you don’t believe me, you can go look for yourself. There’s only so much space here.”
“I believe you, I believe you, it’s just that this doesn’t seem like your usual style?”
“Indeed. If it were just me facing this disaster, I would be more than capable, at least not like now. The way you understand my style is based on when I was alone, but with Luo Shuyou, I won’t choose the optimal solution. I will only prioritize him above all else.”
Lu Yunzhou was somewhat puzzled. “Is there a conflict?”
“Only by implementing the optimal solution can I give him better protection, right?”
“That’s a long-term plan, but I don’t want him to suffer now for an unpredictable future. There will always be a way. As for suffering, if we can avoid it, we should.”
Lu Yunzhou: “…”
He realized that he couldn’t use normal thinking to understand Xie YunChuan’s actions. Otherwise, he would find that he was sick in every way.
He couldn’t understand, in the current situation, wasn’t staying alive the most important thing?
He gestured for Xie YunChuan to look at the heavy snow falling outside the French window. In less than a night, the accumulated snow was already impossible to measure.
“Look, if we don’t endure hardship, we’ll pay with our lives.”
Xie YunChuan only glanced at it indifferently, saying in a low voice, “At least, I’ll do everything I can to protect him for as long as I can.”
Lu Yunzhou remained noncommittal, changing the subject to ask, “What’s the situation in the community? Is there still food? It’s impossible to go out in this situation. You could freeze to death on the road.”
“Yes, most of the people in this community left early, and the community’s gate was tightly closed before, so outsiders couldn’t get in. There will definitely be food in many homes.”
“Then why didn’t you look for it when you went out before?”
“How do you know I didn’t look?”
“If you looked, how is there still food left?”
Xie YunChuan really wanted to open Lu Yunzhou’s skull to see if there was just a pile of mush inside his head. How could he ask such a retarded question?
He remembered that he used to be quite smart. Could it be that the changing environment had affected his brainwaves, causing him to become mentally deficient?
“Do you think I could have searched this entire huge community by myself?”
“Besides, the only homes I could enter were those where accidents happened and the doors were broken. I couldn’t possibly lose my humanity early on and go around breaking into homes to rob people, could I?”
Lu Yunzhou awkwardly added some wood to the fire.
“Haha, that’s true, we still need to have some humanity.”
Luo Shuyou waited for a long time but didn’t see Xie YunChuan return. He couldn’t lie down anymore. He got up and stood for a long time, looking at the white snow outside. He still put on thick clothes.
Even though he didn’t actually feel cold at all.
Seeing Xie YunChuan and Lu Yunzhou sitting around the fire warming themselves, Luo Shuyou suddenly had an urge to cry. His nose felt sore, and tears welled up in his eyes.
He clearly realized his difference from them.
Lu Yunzhou looked up and saw Luo Shuyou, with teary eyes, standing there looking at them, like he had caught them in the act of cheating.
His scalp tingled. What was going on? They said they didn’t argue.
He signaled to Xie YunChuan, who had his back to Luo Shuyou. Xie YunChuan turned around, and seeing Luo Shuyou like this, he was immediately startled. He immediately got up and walked over. “What’s wrong, Luo Shuyou? Why are you crying? Are you freezing?”
He gently stroked Luo Shuyou’s cheeks with one hand, carefully wiping away his tears, and held his hands with the other to feel his temperature. Perhaps his hands were warmer, but in contrast, Luo Shuyou’s hands felt somewhat cold.
“So cold, come and warm up.”
He regretted how he could have thought Luo Shuyou wasn’t cold just now, and left him alone in the room freezing.
Luo Shuyou threw himself into Xie YunChuan’s arms with a grievance, not saying a word, just burying himself in his embrace.
Xie YunChuan could only hold him back to the fire, let him sit in his lap, and pulled his hands to warm them by the fire.
As they warmed up, Luo Shuyou’s tears fell even more intensely.
Xie YunChuan hurriedly retracted one hand to wipe away his tears. “Luo Shuyou, baby, dear, what’s wrong? Tell your husband.”
“Did you have a nightmare? Were you scared when you woke up and your husband wasn’t by your side? Your husband is right here, don’t cry, okay?”
Luo Shuyou withdrew his hands from Xie YunChuan’s grasp and turned his head to bury it in his embrace, still not saying a word, just wanting to squeeze further into Xie YunChuan’s arms, wishing he could melt into his body.
Xie YunChuan had no choice but to follow his lead, using his clothes to wrap him up, trying to bring him closer to his embrace, holding him tightly.
“Don’t be afraid, sleep. Sleep in your brother’s arms.”
Luo Shuyou obediently closed his eyes, sadly thinking that he was really abnormal. Even next to the roaring flames, he couldn’t feel any warmth.