Loneliness

Chapter 4

The hotel had been booked in advance online. Xiao Zhou and Senior staved with the child in the family room, leaving the four men to stay in two double rooms.

To no one's surprise, Chen Dong Lan and Yuan
Yuan stayed together.

Because it was the weekend, the hotel rooms were in high demand and only Senior's room had a view. The other two rooms didn't look out onto anything nice, so the windows were only left slightly opened.

Yuan Yuan wasn't very satisfied with this. It wasn't easy to make this trip and not being able to stay in the best room was quite a pity.

As for Chen Dong Lan, he seemed very satisfied. Once he stepped through the door, his gaze was fixed on the large television inside. It was really very big, double the size of the one they previously had in their house.

"We came here to play in the mountains and water, not to watch television."

" I know." Chen Dong Lan nodded. "I'm just very happy."

Yuan Yuan thought this was probably the mentality of primary school students on spring excursion.

Senior's daughter was called Amy, and she was a blond mixed-blood little princess. Senior gave birth at an early age. Plus, she had a baby face and didn't look one bit like Amy's mother.

Everyone had dinner at the hotel's western cuisine restaurant. Not yet used to the time difference, Amy was very sleepy while eating and kept nodding off. Senior could only carry her in her arms.

"Sorry...we pamper her too much." Senior pinched Amy's face.

"It's okay, girls should be pampered." Yu Lin's tone made it sound like Amy was his own daughter. He made faces at Amy, but the little girl's eyelids drooped and she turned, positioning her bottom towards him.

Because Amy wasn't in the mood, they didn't have any other activities that night, and everyone went back to their rooms to rest.

Once they were back, Chen Dong Lan couldn't wait to turn on the television. Don't ask how Yuan Yuan was able to see that he "couldn't wait".
Previously, when the two of them went home together, Chen Dong Lan had always fallen back a step to close the door. But today, he fought to be a step ahead and made a beeline for the television.

If he'd known, he would've changed to one even bigger than this for Chen Dong Lan.

Since it was still early, Yuan Yuan sat down to watch television with him.

"What do vou normally watch?"

Chen Dong Lan was engrossed in choosing a channel. "Anything."

Actually, living together for three years, Yuan Yuan had long known that his favourite station was the CCTV set of channels.
"I've been watching a television series recently."

Chen Dong Lan started introducing it to him.
It was an anti-war series, and it happened to be at the part where the protagonist, a war god in the army, was framed and confronted with a life or death crisis.

Yuan Yuan hadn't watched a television series for at least five years.

Tonight, he unexpectedly accompanied Chen Dong Lan and continued to watch.

A bullet was shot toward the protagonist and his best friend materialised from an unknown corner, taking the hit for him. Blood spurted out and the best friend's filming was concluded on the spot. The protagonist gave a loud shout and, as if there was spiritual help, killed off all the enemies and hugged his best friend's body crying bitterly.

Yuan Yuan: ...
He was about to ridicule the lack of logic in this episode when he saw Chen Dong Lan's expression...which seemed slightly sad.

Yuan Yuan looked at the time and realised that it was almost eleven. He hurriedly said, "It's late. Let's get some rest. We still need to get up early tomorrow to hike."