Lop-eared Guard ( Official Translation)

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Lop-Eared Guard – 49

17th Nov 2022

By: Fel, yukirayu

Lu Shangjin slept, lying on the steering wheel for a while. The back and trouser legs of the suit he hadn’t had time to change out of were crinkled up. 

He woke up in a haze and felt his face, the stubble on his chin unshaven for several days. He leaned over to the passenger side to feel around for the spare razor. The little rabbit’s skin was very soft and delicate, so he couldn’t prick him with pain when he coaxed to console him.  

Until he felt that his neck and chin was smooth and tidy, Lu Shangjin pulled his necktie loose with one hand. He couldn’t even stand the necktie being out of line before, but now the tie was casually hanging in a loose and disorderly manner. 

It was the end of holidays, and the kids were sent in by their parents, one after another. 

Outside the school gate, Lu Shangjin’s car was replaced by an ordinary Toyota. Among the many luxury cars staying in front of the school, his was like a small unobtrusive stone.  Nobody noticed him.

Lu Shangjin focused on searching for that wisp of devil’s snare pheromones near the school. He suspected that a driver would send that little spider here. 

Ten minutes later, Lu Shangjin suddenly froze. He raised his head to carefully feel the familiar scent in the air that was getting closer and closer. 

He remembered the milk candy when he was younger. In a large box of milk candy, a small rabbit suddenly jumped out, clinging to him and calling him Jin-ge, and stuffing a piece of sweet milk candy into his mouth. 

Lu Shangjin rushed to push the door open and almost missed the step when he got out as his eyes anxiously searched in the dense crowd. A child holding a milk sorbet ran past him, the scent of the milk candy hitting hard on Lu Shangjin’s heart. 

All of a sudden, Lu Shangjin’s vision became blurry as hope ignited and extinguished over and over, like a piece of iron that had been repeatedly bent before finally breaking in the middle.

He looked at himself in the rearview mirror, his eyes sorrowfully enveloped in a layer of water.

He suddenly recalled; when he went home one early morning, Yan Yi was wearing an apron as he was washing dishes in the kitchen.

The garbage cans were full of seemingly untouched meals. 

Seeing that he came back, Yan Yi hurriedly wiped his hands and walked out. He opened his mouth as if to ask something and hesitated for a long time, but only asked him:

“Are you hungry?”

Thinking about it now, those dull eyes were actually filled with grievances. Lu Shangjin never thought about whether he would be sad when he was preparing a sumptuous dinner only to receive the text “not coming home tonight”.

He couldn’t wait to go back. 

To go and eat all the untouched food at the table without even leaving a drop of vegetable soup. How he wished to rub the little rabbit into his arms and love him dearly, making up for all the things he had owed him over the years. 

Lu Shangjin silently leaned against the car door, his fingers digging into the sealant lining of the car window frame. 

The moment he lifted his gaze, he thought he saw it wrong. 

Across the crowded steam of people at the school gate, he saw the tall and charming figure taking off his helmet on the opposite side of the road where the traffic was surging. His grey hair was lifted up by the wind, his two little rabbit ears raising up as he shook off a few creases pressed by the helmet.