Stop Thinking Chapter 17: Beautiful

Chapter 17: Beautiful

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

Knowing that there was no suitable candidate in the base, Ruan Yu did not dwell much on the matter and soon left the courtship matter to the back of his mind.

In the end, he was a child at heart, shouting happily simply because he felt new, in fact, for several minutes he had had a fever.

The symptoms of the courtship period such as fever, weakness, slow thinking and so on were not very painful, so they were endured and passed, not necessarily to find male relief.

All in all, the fighting arena incident had little effect on Ruan Yu.

But Gu Xiuhan’s popularity on the base changed significantly –

Admiral Gu was not as unapproachable as rumors had it, and would even go to the fighting ring in his spare time to have fun and mingle with the soldiers.

The above rumors escalated to “Admiral Gu is actually cold on the outside and warm on the inside, and easy to get along with.”

The consequence of this dramatic increase in popularity was that Gu Xiuhan received a rare invitation to a ball that day.

The military was full of single men and women, and it was common to hold various themed balls during holidays to broaden friendships, but Gu Xiuhan was rarely invited, and never went.

He certainly wasn’t going to go this time either.

But Ruan Yu, who was also invited, showed great interest, not for the sake of making friends or anything, but just to go and have a good time.

Besides…

What Ruan Yu would not say to Gu Xiuhan was that he had heard Shen Jingya’s heartfelt voice before coming to Energy Star.

Shen Jingya knew it was unrealistic, but still couldn’t help but silently expect Ruan Yu to bring a sister-in-law back from this trip, or try to make it happen.

Ruan Yu knew that pushing for marriage and romance would be offensive, he did not push, he just wanted to bring Gu Xiuhan to the ball, so that he could socialize a little more, as long as he could get in touch with people more.

After all, Gu Xiuhan’s cool and reticent personality was due to a mental development defect in his early years, not a natural formation, and he wasn’t that way by nature.

Not that there was nothing to say, but that it was difficult to say.

Gu Xiuhan, like everyone else, would be lonely alone.

Otherwise he wouldn’t have been so jealous in the fighting ring the other day.

Because if even Ruan Yu was distant from him, his world would be completely turned into a closed cocoon.

Shen Jingya would be anxious, ultimately also because of this.

Ruan Yu squeezed the invitation, his eyebrows slightly wrinkled, thinking intensely.

He would never alienate Gu Xiuhan, but he wanted Gu Xiuhan’s world to accommodate more people, to have more care and companionship, not necessarily love, friendship would also be good.

As soon as possible, Ruan Yu picked up the invitation that Gu Xiuhan had casually thrown away and went to his bedroom to wheedle him.

Ruan Yu’s strengths included playing games and being pampered. He first got into Gu Xiuhan’s bed with his bare feet and stayed there, smoothing out his hair with Brother Xiuhan, and then making demands in a nice way.

When Gu Xiuhan refused and gently pulled the back collar of his pajamas as if to carry him away, he grunted and grumbled and grasped the head of the bed, even the toes hooked to the mattress, softly begged, “Go, Brother Xiuhan, just once, okay? You have never gone there. This time be my companion, how can you let me go alone…”

Ruan Yu has followed the Gu Family parents to some parties before, but he was young and was held in the arms of adults as a mascot, not to mention Gu Xiuhan, who simply did not appreciate such invitations.

It was the first time the two of them were invited together.

“I’m busy with work.” Gu Xiuhan falsely rubbed his brow.

The next moment he saw Ruan Yu pursing his lips in aggravation, and pearls were hanging at the corners of his eyes.

“Brother…”

Not even Xiuhan could resist, it was a common pampering tactic used as a child, tried and true.

Knowing that a brusque refusal could not possibly kill the petulant little fish who had been pampered and spoiled all year, Gu Xiuhan gave a real and solid reason on second thought, “I don’t have a female companion.”

There were a lot of bachelors who went to the ball, and bringing a female companion was not a must. But other people did not care. However, for a general officer like Gu Xiuhan standing straight next to the wall alone didn’t look good, and Puan Yu felt that “Gu Xiuhan taking initiative to ask single girls to dance” sounded too magical to even think about.

But seeing him relent, Ruan Yu’s purpose was half achieved, as for Gu Xiuhan’s female partner…

Ruan Yu pondered for a while and came up with an idea, but was not sure if it was right, and his round light Persian irises coloured eyes blinked hesitantly. But probably because he was thinking too hard, his brain did not have enough memory, so his mouth became autonomous and he just said, “That’s easy, I’ll be your companion, won’t I?”

The words fell out of his mouth, and he froze for a moment.

Let Ruan Yu be his… Female companion?

Gu Xiuhan’s heart jumped a few times, but his black eyebrows were frozen like ice.

He was not interested in the ball, and that was just a pretext to deal with Ruan Yu, he did not need Ruan Yu to dress up as a woman as a dance partner.

But the overactive imagination had taken the liberty of conjuring up a scene of flamboyant fantasy, making the three words choke in the throat.

The little mermaid, who thought women’s clothing was easy, had only learned to walk on flat ground for a month or so when he stepped on high heels that had doubled the difficulty factor. After stumbling a few steps, he realized that he couldn’t even stand up once he was away from people, so he had to cling to him like a doddering flower, biting his jelly-like lower lip and following him with a difficult face. The small velvet dress wrapped around a handful of fine uniform body, because of the tightening, Ruan Yu could not stand a bit of discomfort and would take advantage of no one’s attention to childishly tug it around. He tried to loosen it up a bit, but in fact, he only pulled the flat fabric into a crumpled state, and the straps behind were also scattered, as if they had just been held by a pair of large hands, carefully and lovingly rubbed and played with…

Gu Xiuhan also seemed to have a certain organ autonomous from the brain.

Not only autonomy, but also usurped the power and became the second brain.

Seeing Gu Xiuhan’s silence, Ruan Yu decided to withdraw his proposal, “I’m kidding…”

Just kidding.

“When the female companion needs to wear a dress, you can?”

At first glance, the tone of voice sounded calm and slow, but only the end of the voice carried a very faint tremor.

Like the anxious heat inside giving away the shadow, and like an illusion.

“… Well?”

Ruan Yu was sensitive to sound waves and caught the tremor that was more indistinct than spider silk, but his mouth was too dumb to say or even think about it, he just raised his eyelids with a little trepidation and surprise, as if he hadn’t just mentioned it himself as a female companion.

After two seconds of sluggish mumbling, Ruan Yu put aside that strange feeling and nodded obediently, “I know, I should not look too bad in a dress… I can ask someone to do a little makeup for me.”

With his delicate features, as long as he puts on a little makeup to soften his contours, he won’t look weird in a women’s dress.

This was called raising a fish for a thousand days and using it for a moment.

Gu Xiuhan’s Adam’s apple rolls, low “hmm”, averted his eyes, avoiding eye contact with Ruan Yu’s pure and bright eyes.

Ruan Yu didn’t expect to be able to convince Gu Xiuhan so easily, he paused for a few moments before he followed Gu Xiuhan with a good and silly “mmm”.

The ball was three days later, and since it was decided, it was time to get prepared, and the make-up could be done by the women of the base officers. Ruan Yu’s popularity among the ladies was frighteningly high, and he was often abducted to afternoon teas and other events, so he had made a lot of female friends without realizing it.

Ruan Yu went back to his room and used his terminal to contact a girl named Lin Hui, who had the best relationship with him.

Lin Hui was a Major’s sister, still in college, majoring in planetary energy engineering, and came to the base mainly to collect data and information for her graduation thesis. She was lively and pleasant, and she was crazy, so enthusiastic about Ruan Yu that she was almost a little bit upside down. The result was that Lin Hui not only replied in seconds, but also with a speedy hand, filling the light screen with dense text in one breath.

[Lin Hui]: ah ！！！！

[Lin Hui]: ah ah ah ah ah ah not I psychopath to hallucinate but you really want to wear a mini-skirt!!!

[Lin Hui]: Don’t worry, leave it to me, Ma Ma will make you the most beautiful child in the room!

[Lin Hui]: Oooooooh. I want to swap souls with Admiral Gu for a day, did he save the galaxy in his last life?

[Lin Hui]: … No, Admiral Gu saved the galaxy in this life…

…

A few sentences down the line used more than a hundred exclamation points.

Although their sub-male mermaid was not as obsessed with masculinity and face as male humans, Ruan Yu still blushed before continuing to discuss the details with Lin Hui and following Lin Hui’s instructions went to Star.com to rush order a few small dresses in different styles.

He also went out of his way to allow Gu Xiuhan to take advantage of the improved reputation to engage in social activities, so that he would not go further and further down the road of no return as a widowed veteran.

…

The ball started in the evening, but just after the lunch break Lin Hui rushed Ruan Yu to go to her side to apply makeup and try on a dress, this enthusiasm for the little mermaid to wear a dress but if you can divert one tenth to the graduation thesis Lin Hui is bound to have a place in this year’s Imperial University Outstanding Graduates top 10.

Ruan Yu was also afraid that him wearing a dress would look strange, and wanted to hurry to see the effect, and if it did not meet expectations, it was better to escape a few hours in advance than to run away from the battle, so he dutifully went.

Lin Hui wanted to start a fist fight, but when she looked at Ruan Yu’s face, which was just right to the point that it was not as good as the original one no matter if it was increased or decreased by one point, Lin Hui, who had eight makeup brushes in her fingers, fell into a bewildering silence.

“What’s wrong with you?” Ruan Yu was quite confident, but now seeing Lin Hui confused, wrinkled his brow thinking she was worried, “my face is not good, right, is it … too boyish?”

“?” Lin Hui woke up like a dream, almost laughed out loud, afraid to sting the little mermaid’s self-esteem, gritted her teeth to hold back.

The small pointed jaw was padded by Lin Hui with her index finger, Ruan Yu obediently tilted his head, his face was reflected by the mirror lamp to become more and more bright, the skin texture and lychee flesh generally glittering white was flawless, softer than human skin finely and evenly smeared with powder foundation.

Mermaid’s racial talent, not to be convinced.

These days, Lin Hui and Ruan Yu spend time together but still have to pay attention to the actual proportion. Although she knew that Ruan Yu’s skin was good, she didn’t know that it was so good that it was unbelievable.

” Not that you are not good.” Lin Hui withdrew her index finger from Ruan Yu’s jaw and complained, “It’s because you look so good, there’s not much room for me to play…”

[Why is the chin obviously pointy but fleshy to the touch? It’s like touching jelly! Help!]

[Damn, I’ll remember the touch of this index finger for the rest of my life.]

[Such a stress relieving face that Admiral Gu can pinch every day?]

Ruan Yu, “…”

Ruan Yu’s eyelashes fluttered, and he whispered for Gu Xiuhan, “That…. Brother Xiuhan does not pinch my face.”

Such an intimate act as pinching the face almost never happens.

Come to think of it, at some point, Gu Xiuhan had been avoiding even normal physical contact with him…

Lin Hui thought he was upset because of her outrageous heart sound, blushing and snorting, hurriedly looking down and fiddling with the bottles and jars in front of the makeup mirror, dumping the pot on the subconscious, “Hahahahaha am I thinking about something messy again? I’m sorry, I’m sorry, it’s all the subconscious… “

She said casually, but actually took a short time. She mainly modified the contours of Ruan Yu’s face to make the lines softer, applied a thin layer of lip gloss, and also took care of a pre-prepared wig, the custom color was no different from Ruan Yu’s natural hair color, both blotted with a little watery blue silver white.

“The main task this afternoon is to try on the dresses that were sent to you one by one.” Lin Hui resisted the urge to rub her hands together like a fly, picking up a small dress with one hand and muttering, “Which one is better to wear… Would  you like to ask Admiral Gu to come and help you? You’ve prepared so much to be his dance partner.”

“Yeah.” Ruan Yu felt justified, sent a message to Gu Xiuhan to explain the situation, and then grabbed a dress and went to the dressing room to change.

This dress was a little difficult to put on, with a floating belt east and west, to be knotted at the collarbone, with the ankle strap type shoes.

Ruan Yu could not let the girls in to help, so he had to fumble slowly on his own, tossing and turning for a while, his brain was about to become a mess with those ribbons and ties, and did not see if Gu Xiuhan replied, pushing the door out of a small face anxiously sweat stained, cheek flesh through the melting pink, eyeliner pencil at the end of the eyes shallowly picked up a touch to make the pair of young round eyes longer, eyelids a lifted

A wisp of sweetness and elegance floats up.

And outside the door of the checkroom, Gu Xiuhan had quietly waited there.

Ruan Yu was slow, but that was relative to the change of clothes, in fact, from the message to Gu Xiuhan to now, it was just after ten minutes.

Flying over just like that.

Lin Hui stood aside, a smiling face of an old mother with no regrets in this life, who seemed to be able to face Buddha at any time…

“Brother Xiuhan,” Ruan Yu was stunned, “you came so fast.”

After greeting him, he didn’t think much of it, and intended to get closer to let Gu Xiuhan take a closer look, so he could help him choose a set. The result was just a step out of the ankle bone wrapped around the strap indisputably loosened, Ruan Yu, a boy with little sense of preventing nakedness, directly tried to bend over to tie. The back hem of the skirt just rose at a slight angle, Gu Xiuhan abruptly averted his eyes and said in a hoarse voice, “Do not bend over.”

Ruan Yu reacted for a moment to understand, and obediently stood up straight, while explaining in a low voice, “The straps are loose.”

“Mn.”

Gu Xiuhan took a few steps forward, knelt on one knee, cautiously picked up the two ends of the strap and gently wrapped it around the ankle that was too slender to hold under his palm.

The heart behind the sternum gradually became unbearably hot and swollen. Like a ripe berry, it trembled, filled up, and moved in an unbalanced rhythm. Two heartbeats drifted into Ruan Yu’s ears, one after the other.

It was very muffled, very faint, as if separated by a very thick barrier. Ruan Yu could not even figure out whether it was a heart sound or an illusion caused by other sound waves.

Gu Xiuhan was tying the straps with one eye, even when kneeling on one knee, his posture was almost archaic, his fingers were steady and sharp.

The only thing visible for Ruan Yu was a calm and upright shoulder and neck line. He secretly thought that he was “really beautiful”.

 

 

 

 

 

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