Lop-eared Guard ( Official Translation)

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Lop-Eared Guard – 70

7th Feb 2023

Edited and Proofread by: Jie

To tell the truth, standing in front of him now, Yan Yi was roughly the same as what Lu Shangjin had expected. Just calmer than he imagined.

He had been ready to be slapped in the face, yet all he got was a mild and quiet question, and it produced a more desolate panic. 

When he leaned against the car door to light his cigarette, the sparks reflected in his downcast grey eyes, illuminating the loneliness in them even more clearly.

Lu Shangjin wanted to raise his hand to touch him. His fingertips moved slightly, restrained and clenched in his palm.

He deliberated over a dozen apologies and persuasions in his heart, but what he said out loud was, “……Come home and I’ll make you a midnight snack.”

The corners of Yan Yi’s lips pulled up as he looked down at the flashing spark between his fingers, “Go home, go back to our home?” 

“It’s our new home, don’t you remember? In a couple of days someone will come to modify the standing wall in the study.” Lu Shangjin explained in a low voice and knocked on the glass to ask the driver to go, lest he heard more than he should.

Yan Yi’s eyes were clouded over with a layer of  emotional struggle.

He did remember Lu Shangjin’s considerate care for the past year, the fond love he pampered him with, as gentle as fine rain that fell on his cheeks in early spring when he was seventeen. 

He even vividly remembered him humbly begging Yan Yi not to leave him in his sleep.

“I trusted you once before.” Yan Yi did his best to relax his tense shoulders.

Yan Yi’s coldness made Lu Shangjin’s hair stand on end, further confirming his most feared suspicion—that Yan Yi liked him with all his heart, simply because of Lu Shangjin’s mark on his body.

Lu Shangjin turned his head to look away, desperately trying to conceal his pain.

An oppressive aura nearby was quietly closing in on them.

The two simultaneously sensed the approaching danger and subconsciously turned their backs to each other, their muzzles pointing in different directions.

“Don’t get so close.” Yan Yi frowned. The way he instinctually entrusted his back to the other party like it was second nature hadn’t disappeared.

There was a subtle difference from his previous partner. Lu Shangjin’s posture was more like protecting Yan Yi in the narrow space behind him.

“Get into the car first.” Lu Shangjin reached back from behind to gather him. No one could hurt the little rabbit again, and neither could the little rabbit afford to get hurt again.

Yan Yi pulled open the door of the driver’s seat and quickly sat in. Lu Shangjin rolled over and landed on the other side, getting into the passenger seat, before skillfully fastening the seat belt and pulling out an AK47 from under the seat.

“Don’t be scared, you won’t get hurt when I’m next to you.” Lu Shangjin looked down to check the magazine. His right hand that was loading it kept trembling, scattering bullets to his feet. He hurriedly picked them up to push into the magazine.

“Is there…something wrong with your hand?” Yan Yi averted his line of sight to glance at him. 

“Nothing wrong.” He hugged the AK and leaned back wearily in his chair, barely pulling out an easy smile, “Are you concerned about me?”