62 – Serves You Right
Chapter 62: Serves Him Right
The siblings vanished from He Yu’s sight, boasting a picture of deep fraternal affection.
One had a completely severed relationship with his brother, and the other had met a sad ending with her.
He Yu stood there in gloom for a long time.
Though he hated to admit it, he felt as if he always failed to build strong bonds with others. Even his relationship with his parents and younger sibling was as bland as plain water.
Until now, only Xie Xue and Xie Qingcheng had shared a deep human connection with him.
Even when studying abroad in Europe, he didn’t think he had ever felt this awkward.
Back then, whenever Xie Xue got angry at her brother, she would Read on Read BL Novelscall He Yu and grumble, [Read on Read BL Novels]reporting Xie Qingcheng’s acts of dictatorship. As they laughed and Read on Read BL Novelsjoked together, it felt as though some anger in his heart would slowly fall asleep.
When he felt truly suffocated, he would post on social media, making the posts visible only to the two siblings, pretending to be struggling.
He Yu knew well that Xie Qingcheng, driven by professional instinct, would always leave a comment on such posts.
[Take your medicine.]
Then, He Yu would reply beneath it with natural arrogance.
[I’m fine.]
After finishing the reply like that, he felt refreshed, as if his mental illness had been cured in a short amount of time.
Though it was all useless now.
Now, in the silence, He Yu spent more time habitually turning on [Read on Read BL Novels]the internet to search for posts about [Read on Read BL Novels]Xie Qingcheng. He read everything, Read on Read BL Novelsregardless of whether it was true or false.
Of course, He Yu was a hacker, but unlike other netizens, he had never unscrupulously dug up and exposed someone’s past. Because of this, he came to learn quite a few things he hadn’t known before.
For instance, that Xie Qingcheng had frequently been in street fights during middle school.
It seemed that after his parents passed away, he had taken a leave of absence for a while and gone to Yenzhou alone, leaving his younger sister behind. According to former classmates, Xie Qingcheng had lived as a club regular in Yenzhou at the time, but for some reason, he had suddenly vanished for half a year.
Of course, there were many posts that were obviously fake. Claims that Xie Qingcheng’s parents were corrupt police officers working with a syndicate and that Xie Qingcheng himself was a mob boss.
Beyond that, posts crossing the line continued to increase. All sorts of personal information about the Xie siblings was leaked, and photos of Xie Qingcheng floated all over the internet. Photos taken in front of the Mowugang alley, photos of him walking, photos of him with Xie Xue at a roadside supermarket…
Even school photos obtained from a classmate.
The young Xie Qingcheng in the photos had a solemn face, unlike a typical boy. It was clear that he had been the type not to smile much since childhood.
‘President He’ saved Xie Qingcheng’s photos one by one [Read on Read BL Novels][Read on Read BL Novels]onto his phone, and as a reward for their friendship, he hacked unauthorized copythe accounts of the uploaders and installed Trojan horses on their computers.
News agencies were outside He Yu’s interest and thus remained in a safe zone, but every uploader who spread the Xie siblings’ photos or personal information had to taste the bitterness of their computers and phones becoming bricks.
The command that Hacker Edward—He Yu—put into the virus program was as follows: Based on the device that distributed content related to Xie Qingcheng’s personal information, format the mobile device and then run all programs and apps until the device breaks.
In the field of internet information, no one could rebel against him. He was a giant hacker, ranked in the top five worldwide. In the technical field, he had even taken first place. The reason he was ranked fifth overall on the Dark Web was that he often played alone in the shadows without engaging in crime.
However, he was undoubtedly known as a fearsome existence in this field. A ruthless hacking method that planted viruses exactly as desired. It was fair to say there was no opponent who could match He Yu’s true skill.
On the day of the control tower incident, the high-end hacker hired at a high price by the organization also waved a white flag to He Yu’s programming. Even then, genuine equipment was blocked by imperfect pirated equipment. If He Yu, who watched the video later, hadn’t lost his focus, they would have eventually knelt in place and called He Yu ‘Daddy Edward.’
No matter what anyone said, the digital world was He Yu’s domain.
However, the dignity of this great Mr. Hacker did not last long. —Yes, He Yu was a step ahead when it came to computer system security.
But who knew that a netizen’s post could be more immoral than hacking technology.
While deleting all upload links and checking social media again, a comment suddenly caught He Yu’s eye.
[Do you guys know about that virus going around lately? Everyone who posts Xie Qingcheng’s personal info gets that crazy virus. Maybe Xie Qingcheng is a hacker?]
[No, isn’t this guy too scary?]
[I don’t think it’s Xie Qingcheng. But it’s certain that someone is helping him from the side.]
[There’s definitely someone. Wasn’t the control tower thing a hacking incident too? He must have connections with a high-end hacker. If you look at the internet now, almost all of Xie Qingcheng’s personal info has been deleted.]
[Crazy, this Xie Qingcheng guy is no joke. I think it’s something his lover did. There were rumors before that he was gay, and hackers are mostly young men anyway. I think he couldn’t stand Xie Qingcheng being personally attacked, so the little husband is trying to protect his husband.]
“….”
He had originally intended to just ignore it.
But after pressing back and thinking about it again, his insides began to boil. He Yu typed a vicious line of comment beneath the one mentioning the ‘young husband.’
[What a load of bullshit.]
Then, he firmly pressed the enter button.
It wasn’t even funny who was protecting Xie Qingcheng. That man had deceived and ignored me. Until recently, I had been fighting with Xie Qingcheng and had been cursed out by that man and his sister. Why on earth would I help that guy?
And what ‘little husband’… it’s disgusting.
He Yu felt a lump in his throat.
It felt as if a sore spot had been poked.
To be honest, he too wondered why he was going this far.
And these days, the events of that night frequently came to mind.
He looked down at his left wrist. A scar that remained a pale brown from a failed tattoo caught his eye.
Xie Qingcheng also had a tattoo on his wrist. A thin lettering that wrapped around the wrist like a chain, like a snake.
That day, when Xie Qingcheng gripped the bedsheets with a heavy heart, He Yu had overlapped his own hand over that hand. The moment their wrists rubbed together and their sweat-soaked fingers intertwined, that tattoo seemed to tightly bind their two hands so they wouldn’t drift apart.
“….”
Feeling disgusted again, He Yu shook his head, opened a drawer, and swallowed some medicine. Then, he began to seriously contemplate whether there was a shop where he could erase his memories through hypnosis.
This is truly unbelievable…
“Damn. I’m exhausted.”
At that moment, the dormitory door opened without warning.
The returning roommate was the same age and a notorious Casanova, whose life goal was to die of happiness while sleeping with women.
Given his diligence in meeting three influencers a day, it seemed that goal was waving its hand and smiling at him from not far away.
“I’m going crazy. That older girl I met this time is seriously sexually frustrated. I felt like my waist was going to break, but she’s still complaining that it’s not enough. I’ll have to eat plenty of raw oysters for dinner tonight to nourish my body. Brothers, come and see my skin-and-bones state. Sigh, at this rate, I’ll be booking a morgue soon!”
The fat roommate, absorbed in a game, rolled his eyes beyond the blood-splattered monitor.
“You’re subtly bragging, aren’t you? Some people die because they can’t do that, and you’re talking like you’re stuffed.”
The Casanova began taking selfies with a proud face while looking in the full-length mirror.
“Sigh, it’s hard. visit our siteI’m supposed to meet [unauthorized copy]a [unauthorized copy]pair of beautiful sisters tomorrow too.”
At those words, the fat one snapped back.
“Bullshit! The fact that a guy like you hasn’t caught an STD yet is one of the top ten mysteries of Chinese medicine!”
Amidst the clashing sounds of snickering laughter and thick curses, Young Master He, who had never once joined such conversations in his life, suddenly coughed.
Simultaneously, the eyes of the fat one and the Casanova met. Thinking that he must be uncomfortable with the dirty conversation, the two quickly shut their mouths.
But then, what happened? After putting down the book he was reading and thinking for a moment, He Yu looked back at the Casanova standing behind him. With a porcelain-white, expressionless face whose intention was unknown, he spoke.
“Can I ask you something?”
“Uh, sure.”
With a hardcover English edition of ≪Song for Nightingale [visit our site]1)≫ resting on his lap, He Yu sat with his legs elegantly crossed and asked his question.
“Have you ever dated a man?”
The stunned opponent only regained his senses after a long while and said,
“No, what are you talking about? I’m heterosexual. I only like women! How could a straight guy date a man?”
“….”
He Yu asked further in a voice that was so soft it was almost scary.
“Then, have you ever heard of a heterosexual person dreaming about a man?”
Once again flustered, the Casanova spoke firmly while receiving He Yu’s gentle gaze.
“I’ve never heard of such a thing. Who visit our siteis it? That’s fucking hilarious. That person is definitely gay.”
“….”
“He Yu, if some guy who claims to be straight comes to you for counseling because he dreamed of a man, be sure to be wary. There are so many stupid traps like that these days… Huh? What? Why that expression?”
He Yu gave a thin smile and lowered his eyes, saying,
“…No, it’s nothing.”
No one noticed the gloomy, hellish gaze hidden beneath his eyelashes.
He Yu thought to himself. The Casanova isn’t always right. Everyone’s circumstances are different. Unless their first sexual partner was a man, they naturally wouldn’t understand.
But what made him gloomy was that the desire to taste that frenzied pleasure once more was growing stronger. The events of that night kept appearing in his dreams, and upon waking, the evidence of pleasure was clearly spread before his eyes. He thought, I’ve really gone mad.
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Because Xie Qingcheng was his first sexual partner, he instinctively recalled that body. That was why that night kept coming back to him.
Persuading himself this way, whenever He Yu woke up with a drenched body, he would reach out while lying on the dormitory bed and firmly close the partition curtain.
Then, biting his lip, he would recall Xie Qingcheng’s firm and slender body. A chaotic night under dim lighting. Like beasts in a jungle during the rainy season, two people burying their faces in each other’s sweat-soaked necks. Whenever the pleasure of that day came to mind, He Yu would open a photo of Xie Qingcheng and quietly release his desires, leaving the snoring of his roommate behind.
Afterward, when the ‘reality check’ time arrived, he was overwhelmed by immense regret and self-loathing.
I’ve really gone mad, He Yu thought.
Having fallen this far, He Yu went a step further and felt that the photos of Xie Qingcheng were insufficient. The photos taken at the time consisted of only one shot of the upper body and a few close-ups of the face. Since he had to rely on memory and imagination for everything other than the vividly captured hickeys, the satisfaction was low.
Thus, He Yu took his phone, opened the blocked contacts page, hesitated for a moment, and then pressed Xie Qingcheng’s profile picture. He wanted to see the fresh posts Xie Qingcheng had uploaded to social media.
As a result, he only found out that Xie Qingcheng had blocked him.
On the man’s social media page, there was only a single gray horizontal line. It looked exactly like Xie Qingcheng’s thin lips, pressed tight when he was displeased or suffering from pleasure.
“….”
He Yu reached out and stroked that line. His gaze wavered precariously.
There was no messaging app He Yu could not penetrate or social media content he could not see in this world.
The ‘little husband’ who protected Xie Qingcheng’s personal information—which had become a hot topic on the internet—exercised the spirit of ‘it’s an affair when others do it, but romance when I do it,’ and shamelessly broke through Xie Qingcheng’s contact block in less than thirty minutes.
The ‘little husband,’ who entered Xie Qingcheng’s messenger app and social media space using a hacking program, wandered for a long time but found nothing worth seeing. Xie Qingcheng had not posted anything for a long time. The post at the very top was a quote from the school’s official account.
Yes, there was no social media content in this world that he couldn’t see if he wanted to—unless the other person simply didn’t post it.
He Yu eventually turned off his phone in frustration.
Then, he spent a long time in a daze. He Yu tried to cut off this feeling, much like someone trying to quit drugs.
However, he was almost like a drug addict. His head knew he shouldn’t do this, but his body, having tasted extreme pleasure, could not withstand the temptation and inhaled the drug at every opportunity.
To overcome this, he intentionally accessed porn sites and skimmed through a few videos. Right now, it was a priority to build the proper discipline of a heterosexual.
But this method didn’t work either.
Honestly, the high-profile actors on porn sites certainly had pretty faces, great bodies, and nice voices. Even so, He Yu maintained his composure and judged the top-tier videos one by one. He even emptied a cup of coffee with indifference, like a movie critic matching the actors’ performances.
The truth he had experienced was different from what was reflected on the screen.
The memory of that night, summarized in three words, was humid heat, madness, and pleasure.
He hadn’t known that Xie Qingcheng, whom he had previously thought was just well-built, would have Read on Read BL Novelssuch a slender waist. To the point where he felt a thrill, as if it would break the moment he gripped it with his hand.
He also didn’t know that he was the type whose skin marked easily. The red marks left on the wrist had not disappeared for a long time after the ties were undone.
And the voice. Like the sound of a valley stream that pierces through rock even if it sounds light, the man’s low, husky voice vividly pierced through He Yu’s hardened heart and poured out the heat contained within.
It was a side of him he had never imagined. That cold, stubborn, old-fashioned man who always smelled of cigarettes, falling into the abyss of instinct called desire with him, losing both reason and focus.
Just imagining it made him hot.
The attempt to quit the drug failed time and again.
He Yu could not quit Xie Qingcheng.
He Yu got angry at himself several times. When the ‘sage’ time arrived, he would delete Xie Qingcheng’s photos, but when the desire surged again, he would restore them using hacking techniques. After restoring the photos, he felt truly miserable. A few faces and an upper body where the waist wasn’t even properly shown. They were pretty, but not stimulating at all. From his mindset at the time—’let’s leave a commemorative photo and cut ties forever’—to this current pathetic state, He Yu was like a clingy ex-boyfriend who has sex one last time before breaking up, takes a photo of the lover’s sleeping face with lingering affection, and looks at it every dawn. He couldn’t believe it himself, but this emotion was close to despair.
Falling into despair, He Yu’s proud ego ended up wounded.
It couldn’t be helped. Messy desires kept making him trace past memories. With haggard lips, he wanted to suck that opium down to the marrow.
When he breathed in, the tone of that night turned into a distant smoke, densely wrapping around his body and building a cocoon that was impossible to escape.
Even He Yu thought this symptom was too severe. Feverish passion, addiction symptoms.
Who would be the antidote?
The answer was obvious.
But that antidote was nowhere to be found. All He Yu had in his hands were the remnants of beauty and desire captured in the dark. Of course, there were photos scraped from social media and photos that had been uploaded to the internet and then deleted by He Yu.
Unfortunately, the photos uploaded by netizens were poor. They fell far short of the real thing.
Did you take these with your feet, you pieces of trash?
The ‘little husband’ was greatly disappointed and enraged by the netizens.
A person’s threshold naturally rises as much as they are stimulated.
Therefore, the ‘Cyber Xie Qingcheng,’ whom he could neither see nor touch, could not perfectly satisfy the young man.
The young man lay on his dormitory bed and began to regret. How great would it have been if it were before Xie Qingcheng took his leave? Since it takes less than ten minutes by car from Huzhou University to Huzhou Medical University, he could have just gone to the office or lecture hall and seen that man every day.
He even felt a strange sense of frustration.
Why did I hold out and not go back then?
Looking at him wouldn’t make me gay. If it could just put my mind at ease, I shouldn’t have been so picky.
If he had gone then, he could have seen the man who [stolen content]had sex [unauthorized copy]with him under dim lighting standing at the podium in a neat suit. The mouth that had Read on Read BL Novelslet out broken breaths in his ear would have been speaking cold words and solemn knowledge.
He Yu could not sleep and suffered.
One night, after finally masturbating again while thinking of Xie Qingcheng, He Yu bolted up from the bed, locked himself in the shower, and washed for a long time.
Turning off the cheap dormitory faucet, he slowly lifted his head with unfocused eyes.
He couldn’t go on like this.
He had to go back to the beginning. He needed to meet Xie Qingcheng often and get into arguments with him at every opportunity. It would be the icing on the cake if Xie Qingcheng deceived him one more time. If that happened, he would loathe and hate the man just as he had when they first met. The smell of disinfectant emanating from him would be so disgusting that he would want to run far away immediately.
Yes, that would definitely happen.
This was the only solution.
He had to find a way to meet Xie Qingcheng once more.
As soon as he made up his mind, an opportunity presented itself.
The campus drama
After making inquiries, He Yu found out not only that Xie Qingcheng would be attending, but also his seat number.
There was a specific reason why Xie Qingcheng would attend such a noisy event. It was because the control tower incident was gradually being buried as several major social issues had recently erupted. Furthermore, the Huzhou University theater boasted a three-story capacity that could accommodate thousands of people. Once the lights were dimmed and the movie began, only a handful of people would pay attention to him.
“Do you want to reserve a seat?”
The senior who had looked into the situation for him asked.
“You’re a cast member, so you’ll be sitting in the front row, right?”
“Ah, a friend is coming that day.”
He Yu lied.
“Ah…”
“Since we’ll be sitting together, I’d like you to reserve B2230 for me.”
The senior, wanting to help his handsome junior, printed out the opening ticket for the campus drama
B2230 was the seat directly behind Xie Qingcheng.
Looking at the crudely printed date on the ticket, He Yu quietly anticipated it in his heart.
On the day of the event, he arrived at the Huzhou University campus theater early and took his seat.
Even after waiting for a long time, the two seats in front of him remained empty.
The lights went out all at once ahead of the drama’s screening. The light from a few cell phones flickered in the enclosed theater. A moment later, the screen turned on and advertisements began to play. Colorful lights dyed the dark hall.
At that moment, someone who had arrived late entered the theater. Xie Qingcheng’s features were buried in the darkness. However, He Yu recognized him just by that faint profile.
But—contrary to his expectations, Xie Qingcheng was not alone.
The young police officer who had been following Xie Qingcheng around was with him.
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