Stop Thinking Chapter 25: Withdrawn

Chapter 25: Withdrawn

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

Ruan Yu couldn’t remember how Gu Xiuhan finally spared him.

He was held in Gu Xiuhan’s arms for so long, so long that he was warmed up with a damp, fine sweat, his eyes were red.

The sound of two hearts beating wildly through the chest and clothing mixed into a mass, and it was impossible to say which heart was beating out the most intense frequency.

Ruan Yu only knew that he was dumbfounded, and could not breathe evenly.

“I’m so tired, you’re still not finished, I said you can hold me for a short while, I should not have let you hold…”

It was only when Ruan Yu’s whining voice became tinged with weak sobs and even began to regret that Gu Xiuhan reluctantly let go of him.

The always cool and steady Admiral Gu, his shirt was wrinkled, his collar was crooked, and his body was soaked with the sweet scent of mermaid.

Gu Xiuhan slowly breathed out, raised his hand to straighten the collar, as if regretting that he should not be so strong to hug the little mermaid who was kind enough to give him a hug, acting out this drama of the farmer and the snake, but the pupils of his eyes were still black with a crazy energy.

“You say no more…” Ruan Yu covered his ears, which were so red that he didn’t know how much redder they could be.

The physical blocking method could block the reading of the EEG signal, but the effect was only slight.

But it was better than nothing, and it was better to receive a little less. Gu Xiuhan was so unbelievable, so bad for him.

Gu Xiuhan did not stimulate Ruan Yu, who was already curled up on the small sofa and had turned into a fish ball, and changed the half changed bedding, grabbed the sheets to be washed and the black velvet dress piled up in the washroom and was about to leave.

At this time, Ruan Yu seemed to suddenly read something, jumped off the small sofa and stomped over, footsteps angry, the first time he opened his mouth without any shocking voice, “Where are you going to take these to, ah.”

This is the case, Gu Xiuhan actually had the face to put on that cold and solemn expression, light voice, “sent to wash.”

When his face was cold, Ruan Yu was afraid, his face was red, but he just repeated, “Oh, to wash…”

As a result, Gu Xiuhan nodded his head, turned around and left.

Ruan Yu stared at the bedroom door, dumbfounded for a long time and did not look back.

Lying in front of the mind-reading mermaid with a serious face…

How can a person who was so restrained before not pretend at all after his original form was revealed?

If he had known that Gu Xiuhan would break down like this, he would not have poked at him.

Anyway, just this once, Ruan Yu made up his mind that in the future he could not let Gu Xiuhan hug like this today.

Ruan Yu was in the washroom, holding a mouthful of toothpaste foam and toothbrush head, looking at his own bewildered and dazed face in the mirror, unable to figure out how this scene happened.

Gu Xiuhan was standing behind him, dressed in a solid black uniform, straight and solemn, with a jade-like hard face.

–If he hadn’t been in such a dominant posture, he would have wrapped the slender Ruan Yu in his arms.

Gu Xiuhan’s cheetah-like back was slightly arched, resting his jaw gently on Ruan Yu’s shoulder, his eyes were quiet and expressionless. As if he only had to say “no treatment today”, so the other wouldn’t be squatting in the bathroom to block the fish, who looked at him  confused, so giving a beautiful mermaid a hug becomes a matter of course.

He was eating his heart out.

Once he had hugged Ruan Yu, who was shy and limp, whispering in his arms, he could not pretend to be “normal” anymore. No matter how strong the will power was, it was no longer possible.

[Ruan Ruan…]

[I want to hug you so much.]

[I was thinking about it last night, and it was hard.]

…

The murmur of a cool and soft heart.

He thought about not being able to sleep.

There are many strong tranquilizers, but without sleep, he would be tired after sitting excited until dawn.

Ruan Yu pursed his lips, which were wet with water and appeared red, and his voice became less and less firm in refusal.

“But I’m brushing my teeth… Wait, wait a minute…”

“Hmm.”

As if agreeing, but didn’t seem to let go.

Ruan Yu, “…”

What is “hmm”.

Where is the end of “hmm”?

Why did he have a brain fart yesterday and said he wanted to give Gu Xiuhan a “calming treatment” by hugging him?

The hug he said and the hug Gu Xiuhan understood were not the same meaning at all.

And there was no calming effect, Gu Xiuhan just went from secretly wanting to blatantly taking…

Ruan Yu, the iron fool.

Who looked at it without saying a word.

“I don’t feel comfortable…” Ruan Yu twisted a small amount, “Do not squeeze so tight.”

The word “uncomfortable” came out, and the arms that clamped down on the body suddenly loosened.

Ruan Yu took advantage of the situation and whispered the symptoms, “The places you touched became very numb, very hot, and also weak, and the heartbeat is also very fast…. It’s really uncomfortable…”

He thought  Gu Xiuhan would go away, but suddenly he was hugging even tighter than at the beginning.

The heart sound was also so hyperactive that it became a mess, and couldn’t even hear what he wanted to hear.

Brother Xiuhan seemed to have lost his mind…

Ruan Yu couldn’t even cry, so he quietly arched forward with his toothbrush in his mouth, trying to make a little distance from the back.

After washing up, Ruan Yu broke out of Gu Xiuhan’s arms that had finally relaxed their grip, afraid that he would ask for more sedation treatment, he hesitated and stood in a small quail-like position in the corner, his back squeezed in the corner, his left and right shoulders next to the wall, so that Gu Xiuhan’s arms could not be inserted, effectively preventing him from being hugged.

Gu Xiuhan looked at Ruan Yu, who was extremely suitable to be blocked in the corner of the wall to bully, and tried his best to stifle the part of the thinking activity that was seriously over the scale.

“Stop messing with me while I’m brushing my teeth.” Ruan Yu turned up the front hem of his pajamas, depressed, “Look at what you’ve done.”

Just now, in order to avoid Gu Xiuhan he arched forward so hard that his belly was red from the edge of the vanity.

In fact, the mermaid was too young, this kind of strength wouldn’t leave any marks for human beings. Ruan Yu also didn’t hurt at all, but it looked like he was being bullied by a bad model.

He originally complained, but Gu Xiuhan just swept a glance, the eyes quickly became wrong.

Taking the initiative to lift up the clothes for Gu Xiuhan see, but also a mouthful of “do”. Who would not want to be crooked? Who can blame?

A scene from Gu Xiuhan’s mind into Ruan Yu’s mind –

The yogurt-like tender white soft little belly, the prong choked pink and red. Look flat, but not thin to the touch.

Reaching with a palm, can pull up a little pink soft flesh, caught in between the fingers grinding.

…

He breathed heavily thinking about it.

“You…” Ruan Yu was stunned, hurriedly pulled down the hem of his shirt, the tail of his eyes shamed to flood with physical tears, a rare raised voice fierce sentence, “Can you stop thinking!”

“I’m sorry.” Gu Xiuhan moved his eyes away, but a second later, as if attracted by a magnet back, fixed on the abdomen covered by pajamas.

[The place where my baby is carrying the eggs of the little fish]

The voice of the heart was full of fascination.

But the face was still as cold as ice.

Double the anger!

“?”

“.”

The room was silent as the grave.

[I’m really sorry.]

[Didn’t mean to think that way.]

[I’ll try to restrain myself next time.]

[…]

[Revoked?]

“Are you, are you…”

Are you sick, Gu Xiuhan!

Ruan Yu couldn’t bear it, his eyes were red and he sniffled, grabbed Gu Xiuhan’s arm and dragged him towards the door.

What a mental polluter!

Gu Xiuhan knew he was in the wrong, so he didn’t argue or resist, and was silently whisked out of the door and to the corridor by Ruan Yu.

The door behind him was slammed shut loudly.

A group of patrol soldiers who happened to pass by were stunned and looked at the expressionless Gu Xiuhan for half a second before they looked away in horror and pretended not to see the Admiral’s defeated scene, “…”

The little mermaid of the admiral’s family was actually so mean to the admiral?

What kind of a spoiled person is this normally?

…

In the days after that, Gu Xiuhan behaved like some strange switch had been pressed, and was even more clingy than the old Ruan Yu.

He would ask for hugs in the name of treatment. Each hug also tended to last longer.

“I haven’t wiped my tail yet, there’s water everywhere…”

Ruan Yu played with the sea creatures in the sea until dark, just swam home, did not even eat a meal before Gu Xiuhan fished up from the inlet, wet and carried to his lap.

The sofa cushions were covered with dripping seawater. A salty smell.

“It’s okay,” Gu Xiuhan’s voice was hoarse, and his reply was simple and brutal, “It’s just a couch.”

It’s almost as if you’ve lost your head in the rush of color.

[The tail… So beautiful.]

The subtle watery sound of swallowing fluids and the thought of stroking the fish tail were the sound that accompanied the heartbeat.

The hazel-like fin veil and the beautiful pearl-colored scales…

Gu Xiuhan was just crazy about his tail.

No wonder he stood like a pillar at the mouth of the sea to block the fish, so as not to give Ruan Yu the opportunity to change his lower limbs to put on his pants, so that he could stare at the tail.

Ruan Yu was so upset that he wanted to hide his tail.

But as always, Gu Xiuhan only thought about it, and did not mean to put it into action.

When holding Ruan Yu, his expression was calm and steady, and his hands were disciplined, using only his arms to support Ruan Yu’s back.

The only sound he made was a hot and urgent exhale, revealing his panicky nature, and every time Ruan Yu was held in such a half-hearted manner, he would indisputably secrete a lot of courtship pheromones, which smelled cloying and made the exhale even more urgent.

Ruan Yu’s heart was thumping, small wet tail nervous to roll something, but there was nothing around to roll, so he had to try to wrap around Gu Xiuhan’s military boots.

“… Is not finished yet,”

Not knowing how long he has been like this, the back of his tail has been pressed into a bit of wood, Ruan Yu wrapped his arms around Gu Xiuhan’s neck and begged for mercy, so petulant that he wanted to cry, “I’m not comfortable sitting without a butt…”

Is it because you don’t like being treated like this by Gu Xiuhan?

Neither.

After the courtship fever, Ruan Yu’s mental perception took a qualitative leap, and before he was caught, he sensed Gu Xiuhan waiting for him at the entrance to the sea from afar.

If he really didn’t want to, Ruan Yu could have turned his head and swam away.

When he refused, it was not “no hugging me”. Instead, it was the unbearable “have you finished hugging yet”. So he’s just a little scared. There was also a lot of overwhelm.

Ruan Yu didn’t know who to talk to about this.

He might not be able to escape the fate of being asked in the first ten seconds of the game, “This suitor you mentioned is Admiral Gu,” even if he concealed Gu Xiuhan’s name to talk about his troubles.

In turn, Gu Xiuhan’s reputation would be devastated…

When Shen Jingya sent her usual communication this week, the first thing Ruan Yu did was to jump into Shen Jingya’s hologram and pout.

“Auntie Shen,” Ruan Yu grunted, “I miss you so much.”

Shen Jingya understood Ruan Yu, this little fish baby grew up to be the closest to Gu Xiuhan, so there was the probability of being aggrieved when clinging to her.

“What’s wrong, look at you like this… Is there something bothering you lately?” Shen Jingya patted Ruan Yu’s little head and opened her mouth with the kind tone of a coaxing child, “Tell auntie about it.”

Receiving the same treatment as when he was a baby, Ruan Yu’s heart was warm, but also strangely embarrassed, so he hurriedly straightened up, dragged a stool to sit in front of Shen Jingya’s hologram and deliberated for a while, only to say a few words that made his cheeks burn in a flash, “just, just, recently there is a man … He said he likes me.”

“Wow.” Shen Jingya looked at Ruan Yu’s expression, her heart was relieved and she half-jokingly asked, “What kind of person?”

Ruan Yu dropped his eyes, his lips pursed into a line, stammering and not knowing what to say.

Shen Jingya’s eyes curled and she asked a simple question first to try to open up the situation, “The appearance should not be bad, right?”

“Mn, it’s, it’s good.” Ruan Yu blushed and said honestly, “I seem to… I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone better.”

“Oo.” Shen Jingya was more interested and asked, “So good-looking, what does he do and how is he?”

“Just like Brother Xiuhan, he is a military man…” Ruan Yu vaguely passed, lying but not completely. As for how the person is.

From which aspect? Gu Xiuhan couldn’t be a better person, right?

He was the steel giant who gently picked up the frightened and desperate man from the ravaged ocean of his home planet and let him swim in his palm.

The gentle boy who brought him to the new world of the capital star, taught him every chore he needed to learn to integrate into interstellar society, and coaxed him with a heartfelt voice when he was sad, cold on the outside but warm on the inside.

It was the older brother who has always been there for him since childhood, always taking care of him and watching over him.

…

Gu Xiuhan meant much, much more. He has been involved in almost all the important moments of Ruan Yu’s not yet long life. But none of this could be told to Shen Jingya.

After all, Ruan Yu was here to talk and not to complain, he had no way to read minds through holograms and could not guess Shen Jingya’s attitude. And he didn’t dare to reveal the situation, so he couldn’t list the details of the incident, and could only say vaguely, “He’s… He is very nice and treats me especially well.”

Shen Jingya could not help but gently smile, through Ruan Yu various subtle body language and expressions, she could see that Ruan Yu quite liked the other, but was still a little confused, about the state of the unknown like.

It was enough for her not to worry about the other party’s condition – there was Gu Xiuhan on Ruan Yu’s side to escort him. Just look at the way he takes care of Ruan Yu as his eyes, the person who can have so much contact with Ruan Yu must be faultless in all aspects.

“But he can be very bad to me sometimes.” Ruan Yu turned his words around.

“He always finds excuses to hug me, and will hug me for a long time at a time, and he won’t listen when I say I don’t feel well and don’t want to hug anymore.”

Ruan Yu’s head drops, and the more he speaks, the more he whispers.

“And he likes to think wildly, always hugging me while thinking about doing a lot of strange things to me, and said that human males will think like this, it’s their… Instinct or something…”

“…”

Shen Jingya’s upturned mouth slowly solidified, and her face grew darker and darker, her eardrums buzzing with an evil fire, nearly unable to maintain her usual elegant and gentle image.

It’s a big deal, it’s a big deal.

Ruan Yu went to the energy star only for how long, and there’s a person who has known him for a short time and then trying to hug him?

Ruan Yu was simple and easy to cheat? What kind of a coward is this?

Shen Jingya was afraid of scaring Ruan Yu, barely pulled out an apologetic smile, pretending that the research institute had urgent matters to deal with, and fooled Ruan Yu to hang up the communication first and talk later, and then backhandedly dialed Gu Xiuhan.

The signal had just been picked up, and Shen Jingya, who was anxious to protect her child, gave a headlong output, “Gu Xiuhan, I have to ask you, how did you become this brother during this time? You can’t be so careless even if you’re busy with work, you don’t know that Ruan Ruan is being touched by hooligans every day under your eyes?”

Gu Xiuhan received the communication while processing official documents, hearing a fingertip off the light screen, the thin eyelids like a knife blade raised, the corners of the lips slowly pursed into a line, silent for a few seconds before speaking.

“Ruan Ruan said that?”

 

 

 

 

 

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