A CERTAIN SOMEONE ( THE ON1Y ONE )

Chapter 112.5 - Extra

It’s the rainy season as of late, the sky was an ashy grey, everywhere was wet and damp. The people here seemed to dislike using an umbrella especially, they always wore hooded shirts with cowboy jeans, and hurried through the puddles of rainfall.

Today may be a rare rest day where there’s nothing to do, but Sheng Wang was too lazy to leave the house. He initially wanted to cuddle his Ge and experience a day of “rejecting morning assembly” like an incapable lord, but was unfortunately summoned out of bed by a video call.

“This has to be a disturbance of the citizens, I’m suing you after I’m back from my holiday.” After Sheng Wang washed up, he sat down on the living room floor with his legs crossed and yawned. His laptop was placed on the coffee table, and on its screen, wasa close up of Gao Tianyang — this idiot’s — giant face.

“Sorry, forgot the two of you aren’t in the same old place, there’s an additional three hours time difference between us now.” Gao Tianyang put his palms together on the screen, “Feel free to sue me when you’re back, I promise I won't activate Lawyer Li first.”
“Screw off, Chili wouldn't be aiding evil.”
Gao Tianyang laughed mischievously, a smugness that was asking for a beating.

“Where’s my Tian-ge?”
Sheng Wang was too low on the ground and his line of sight was blocked by the bar counter. He couldn’t spot him after looking left and right. “He’s probably still washing his face.”
Just after he spoke, he heard the sound of sizzling coming from the kitchen, and added, “He’s heating up the pot already.”
Gao Tianyang hadn’t realised what was going on. “He’s washing his face with the pot?”
“......” Sheng Wang asked in exasperation, “Did you drink tonight?”
“Eh, I did drink quite a bit, for reals.”

It was approximately night back in the country, and it was late night too. Gao Tianyang was perfectly lively instead. He was practically glowing, a stark contrast to young master Sheng — not only were the young master’s eyes dazed and his voice nasally, there were still a few tufts of hair that stuck out from his head from sleeping just now. Those two tufts of hair were plenty stubborn, and no matter how he brushed it, they still stuck out.
The good thing was that he didn’t need to go out and meet visitors, and neither did a friend like Gao Tianyang count as a person. So after the hair remained stubbornly sticking out despite the young master running his hand through it a few times, he gave up and decided to let it be.

“Alright let’s cut to the chase. When are you and Tian-ge’s holidays?” Gao Tianyang asked.
“You mean a normal holiday or long break?”
“The longer the better.”
“Let me see, there’s barely a few months left in this year too.” Sheng Wang flipped through the calendar. “July, there’s fewer things going on in July, and he happens to have a break too—”
Just as he spoke, he felt someone picking at the tufts of hair sticking out on his head. A look behind him, and it revealed that Jiang Tian had come over at some point in time, with two cups of oat milk in his hands.

“Tian-ge,” Gao Tianyang called out.
Jiang Tian greeted him, and passed a cup of milk to Sheng Wang.
“What a rare sight, Sheng-ge’s actually drinking something warm?” Gao Tianyang saw the steam from the rim, and joked, “Where’s your standard ice water?”
“I’m banned from it,” Sheng Wang said.
“That’s under his purview too?”
Jiang Tian sat down on the couch behind Sheng Wang with the other cup of milk in his hand, his lengthy bent legs coincidentally becoming a backrest for a certain person. His elbows rested on his knees as he said to Gao Tianyang, “Ask him about how long has it been since he recovered from stomach aches.”
“Stomach ache?” Gao Tianyang immediately took out all sorts of articles that Chili used to scare him with. “Then you really gotta be careful, if it’s the recurring type, it’s better if you go to the hospital for a check up. Why the sudden stomach pain?”
Sheng Wang laughed awkwardly, and pointed behind him with his thumb. “His fault.”
Gao Tianyang: “Huh?”
“He somehow acquired a bag of bread crust, and pan fried an entire pot of spring rolls with that that day.”
“And then?”
Gao Tianyang wanted to say “So you got food poisoning?”, but due to his Tian-ge’s stare, he swallowed back the words that were already in his mouth. It was also fortunate that he didn’t say it, because what closely followed up was Sheng Wang saying, “He performed above his usual standard and it tasted kinda good, so I have to show him some face and support him, right?”
“So?”
“He got a stomach ache from overeating,” Jiang Tian pressed a certain person’s thumb back down, and concluded.
The young master touched his stomach, still shaken.
Gao Tianyang: “......”
He thought to himself, I swear I have a girlfriend, how the hell am I still eating dog food?