My Brother Was First My Boyfriend And Later My Husband

Chapter 5

Translator: PastTimer

Editor: PastTimer
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He came over to me and patted me on the back, his arm naturally resting on my shoulders.

I was most afraid of intimate contact with Gu Yan. My body stiffened and I could hardly breathe.

The grade director clearly knew who Gu Yan was and I saw that he had even stood up subconsciously.

Gu Yan was a very famous person in Bo Xing. Even after graduating two years ago, he was still famous.

I had heard his name mentioned more than once at school, which was quickly followed by a landslide of praises. He was so good that people couldn't even be jealous, only envious.

But why should he treat me like that? Could he be letting out some suppressed monster inside, or was it just because he hated me?

I just stood there, feeling helpless, my palms felt hot...

The grade director told him the ins and outs of the matter, after listening to it Gu Yan said lightly, "My brother won't cheat."

"Of course, Of course,"¹ The grade director repeatedly nodded his head to agree with Du Yan, and it looked like he was smashing garlic open with it (T/N: his head).

"But classmate Duan He made such great progress this time, it just made people have some doubts."

The classmate who reported me retorted.

I could see that he was a bit intimidated by Gu Yan. Compared with the sarcastic irony from before, he now sounded like an open and reasonable person.

Gu Yan smiled, he didn't look at him and only stared at the grade director while asking, "Is there something wrong, Director Wu? Bo Xing doesn't even allow other students to make progress with their studies now? It's really too different from what I knew when I was studying here."

It sounded like banter but the grade director was so nervous that he couldn't stop wiping the sweat off his forehead with a handkerchief.

In the end, the school didn't do anything about the accusation of cheating against me. Director Wu even praised me for making such great progress. I just thought it was ironic and only nodded perfunctorily.

Gu Yan said lightly: "It's not a small thing to falsely report others, the school should be stricter about this."

Director Wu repeatedly said yes and the other student's face turned blue.

Gu Yan politely walked away, dragging me behind my wrist. I wanted to break away but there were too many students watching us.

As we were walking past a flower bed, I couldn't help telling him: "I didn't cheat."

Gu Yan said firmly: "I know."

Then he ordered me again: "Take me to your dormitory."

I was afraid of being alone together with him and stopped in my tracks.

Gu Yan rubbed my wrist, feeling the bones, and whispered: "Relax, I won't fool around with you at school."

He was a bit taller than me and when he bowed his head slightly to whisper, it looked a bit like he was kissing my ears. Some of the passing students kept sneaking glances at us in the corner of their eyes. Gu Yan was the centre of attention wherever he went.

I was afraid he would suddenly do something inappropriate, so I hurriedly took him to the dormitory.

The school didn't really require students to live on campus. My room, a typical room shared by four students, had only seen two of its tenants. I had only met my roommate once at the start of the school year. His looks were quite good, but his face was very pale and he looked unwell. He was taken back home by his sister's boyfriend less than a day after staying in the dormitory.

I didn't want to stay alone with Gu Yan if necessary, so I left the door open. He just looked at me, smiled, closed the door shut, and locked it with a 'click'.

Then I was pressed against the wall and forcibly kissed.

His lips were soft but brutal, with a fragrance that reminded me of mint.

I pushed him away, "You said you wouldn't fool around in school!"

Gu Yan touched the wound on his lips that was bitten by me: "When I say fooling around with you, it means me doing you, it doesn't include me kissing you."

He didn't move away and kept on leaning close to me. He was very close, so close I could count his eyelashes.²

I immediately forgot my rebuttal.

His gaze made my scalp tingle.³

Gu Yan's eyes were dark, it looked as if it was the deep abyss. As if he himself was an abyss that eluded mortal understanding, with actions that had elusive motives or maybe none at all..⁴

"Let me go...."

He had defeated me and I begged him for mercy.

Gu Yan finally pushed himself off of me, stepping away.

"Before coming here, I talked with your mother over the phone. She agreed to let you live with me. You don't need to live here in school anymore."

Gu Yan's tone was indifferent but I could feel him looking intently at the expression I had on my face.

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Notes:

1- Director Wu was actually saying: "That is [right], That is [right]." Which is kind of different from 'that's right' so I went with 'Of course' instead. 
2- Just a note: I kinda wanted Duan He to say: "He didn't move away and kept on leaning close to me. He was very close, so close I could count his pores."
3- The original is actually: 'His gaze made my scalp numb.' But (发麻) the one written in the raws can also be tl'ed as 'tingling', so I just went with the one with a more dramatic flare.
4- Google translated this sentence with either lack of or repetition of adjectives. It was all described with the word deep, or none at all. So I just substituted it with the proper Western equivalents directly.