Chapter 24: So it turns out that the dumbass was me.
Thanks to Anonymous for the Ko-fi!
After Jian Rong consecutively bumped into the wall a few times, Lu Boyuan helped him wash his hands and rinse his face before walking him out of the bathroom.
The person in his arms was very light, and Lu Boyuan could hold him with just one hand.
Jian Rong was already a little bit unable to see where he was going clearly. His head ached to the point that he couldn't help but groan a few times.
"Feeling bad?" Lu Boyuan asked.
"No." Jian Rong obstinately refused to admit it before he said again, "...my pants zipper is still undone."
He wanted to steady himself once more and pull up his pants zipper, but as a result, his body tilted to the side and he knocked shoulders with someone passing by.
After being inexplicably knocked into, the person could smell the alcohol fumes, and he scowled, instantly wanting to curse, "You fucker..."
Even drunk, Jian Rong wasn't willing to admit defeat, and he preemptively struck first. "You're cursing who?"
He was unwilling, that was true, but his voice was soft, completely lacking the confidence to back it up.
The person froze when he saw Jian Rong's face, and he immediately glanced up at his hair before freezing again.
Lu Boyuan gripped Jian Rong's face and turned his head back towards him.
Ding-ge had already gone to pay the bill, and he had told Lu Boyuan to leave after getting Jian Rong, so right now Lu Boyuan was wearing both his mask and his hat.
He said mildly, "He's drunk, sorry."
After that, he supported Jian Rong and swiftly left.
The person behind him continued to stand in the same place, his expression shocked. A few seconds later, he finally gathered his wits again, and he fished out his phone and took a burst of photos of the figures in front of him!
Late at night, the dad fans of "SoftBar" had their legs propped up, cigarettes lit, as they reminisced on Tieba about the past, when they used to get into rows and trade insults with their son, those good old simple days.
A forum post stealthily appeared on the homepage—
The title: [Holy sh*t I saw the actual person at a hot pot restaurant!!!]
The content: [[photo] [photo] I didn't have time to take a picture of his face! But it was definitely, definitely him. Look at that figure from behind, that hair, that height and build... everyone should be able to recognize him, right?]
[: Fuck, is he from the dwarf kingdom? Who's the one supporting him, his real dad?]
[OP: Doesn't look like it, he seemed fairly young.]
[32L: Did he get beaten up? Being carried away like that by someone else?]
[OP: Drunk. He seemed to be even thinner than before, judging from his face. It felt like he didn't really have much energy overall.]
[158L: This dumbass got led astray at such a young age and ran out to get drunk??]
[266L: Damn, why's this dumbass getting by so miserably? Is it impossible for him to make a living without Dad's gifts? So immature... does anyone know his Alipay?]
[268L: How much longer until he can start working again? He won't starve to death before then, right?]
[399L: Shiliu started streaming, he's close with the little dumbass. Let's go and ask him, bros.]
