Stop Thinking Chapter 29: Infatuation

Chapter 29: Infatuation

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

 

Gu Xiuhan endured until the veins in the corners of his forehead jumped straight before he could barely stabilize his tone. Of course, he had to confirm the words that were so out of the ordinary.

When he noticed, his right hand had taken the liberty of holding the recessed section of Ruan Yu’s hip.

The silver gray mechanical hand pinched the pajamas, the fabric between the two buttons were strained, revealing a small white tummy from the gap.

“What, what won’t fit? What are you thinking about again…” Ruan Yu intuitively just emerged from the heart of immodesty, blushing and pulling Gu Xiuhan’s mechanical hands.

After finally removing his hand, Ruan Yu hurriedly filled in the details of that ambiguous sentence.

“… It means that you can do those things only when I get used to it, and say it’s okay.”

“Also, the last step is not until the next courtship fever strikes.”

“Once officially in love, I will be responsible for you, so in the future when hugging me you have to be gentle. Now you always strangle my body, making me uncomfortable, like you’re afraid I will escape.”

“Don’t hold back if you have a request, the more you suppress it the stranger you will become, even if I can’t accept it for now, you have to let me know openly.”

Ruan Yu slightly tilted his face, his round eyes with a trifle of childishness were full of light, because he said a lot of things in one breath that were too out of the ordinary for the mermaid who was focused on spiritual love, he was so shy that his whole body was almost colored peachy pink, but his expression was so solemn that he looked at Gu Xiuhan without hiding.

Gu Xiuhan has been looking back at him deeply since Ruan Yu hurriedly added details.

“I promise you everything.”

The mechanical arm stretched out again, circling the narrow waist and hooking Ruan Yu into his arms.

The force was as gentle as just promised, but the body temperature was as hot as coals, and the heartbeat was so fast that it was out of balance. It seems that every cell was confessing love in place of the mouth that wouldn’t speak.

This kind of embrace made Ruan Yu feel at ease and comfortable, like a whole fish immersed in the seawater warmed by the sun.

He was so comfortable that he let out a small sigh of relief in his heart.

Ruan Yu tilted his head and pressed his soft cheek flesh against Gu Xiuhan’s side face, and then bobbed his head to rub it, which was the body language of intimacy and affection between mermaids.

Then, he formally responded to Gu Xiuhan’s previous confession.

“Gu Xiuhan, I like you too.”

The fine and sticky voice, the words were light, but very clear. He said he would confess his love for Gu Xiuhan after the negotiation, so even if his face was thin, he had to say it properly, word by word.

Gu Xiuhan’s response was a momentary tightening of the arms, and fear of stranguling Ruan Yu immediately made him relax the pincer movement.

Not knowing how to love, not knowing how to hurt.

The brain signals suddenly became intense, a blizzard of dazzling, almost difficult to decipher.

But this alone wasn’t enough.

“You have to say it with your mouth like I do.”

The new relationship was established, and Ruan Yu immediately strained his face to make a request.

“Say you like me, and then use your mouth to call out baby for me, now.”

Gu Xiuhan’s pronunciation of Ruan Ruan sounded good too, but it was more like an older brother calling his younger brother.

Ruan Yu preferred “baby” and felt extraordinarily loved.

Ruan Yu used to treat Gu Xiuhan as his elder brother, and knew that even if he was favored, there must be a limit to how much he could be pampered, because after all, the elder brother was the one who could control and educate his younger brother. Therefore, he was arrogant, his small fish tail just cocked up to the sky to shake like a puppy to find a complement back, aiming at Gu Xiuhan’s face to act – said face, in fact, Gu Xiuhan also has little face, just a different level of freezing index.

But there was no superiority between spouses.

So Gu Xiuhan must love him more than before, meet his reasonable needs, and the expression and tone of voice cannot be a little fierce.

He was the same and wanted to do everything he could for Gu Xiuhan.

“Ok.”

Gu Xiuhan brewed in silence, and when he spoke again, his naturally cold tone had been softened to a few loving words, and every word fell into his ears, “I like you, baby.”

“And more than that.”

[I am…]

Gu Xiuhan lowered his eyes, patiently picking out the words that could describe that feeling.

[Obsessed.]

That’s the word, and it’s accurate.

Because there have been many moments when he has been charmed to the point of losing his mind and his image has collapsed devastatingly.

“I am… Obsessed.”

Clearly the appearance was cold and calm, and the word “obsession” had nothing to do with it, but Gu Xiuhan still slightly inclined his face, thin lips against Ruan Yu’s jade-like small red ear, and said it with a single look.

“Why have you suddenly become so good at talking?” Ruan Yu froze, grunting towards the order, “You’d better stop talking for now, I can easily stand hearing more.”

The love talk that titillates and soothes the mental body was too exciting for the mermaid, and Ruan Yu was knocked unconscious by his pounding heart, wagging his tail in shyness.

But he forgot that he had a human lower limbs at the moment, and ended up just wiggling his buttocks twice in Gu Xiuhan’s arms, instantly doubling his shame when he came back to his senses and leaping upward by hooking Gu Xiuhan’s neck to prevent him from seeing his face.

The result was that the budding couple, just at the confession step, stuck together for a long time.

Having promised Ruan Yu that he would not force himself to be patient, Gu Xiuhan finally let certain assumptions breed. For example, before even imagination would try to restrain…

Kissing.

Ruan Yu was forced to receive some imaginary, close-up images of his own mouth.

Because Gu Xiuhan was so desolate, there were few scenes in the brain that could be related to the fresh and beautiful, all very…

For example, the pink lips with shallow bite marks remain.

The mucous membrane of the lips showed a near-injured, high-heat ripe red.

And the voice of the artist with a sticky nasal voice, crying and asking “how much longer to finish the kiss”…

It really looked like Ruan Yu’s reaction. But the truth was that no one would kiss their boyfriend, who had just confirmed their relationship, like that right away.

It’s not like you’re a real love freak. Both of them were first timers, and Gu Xiuhan would have been careful.

But…

Kissing was something that would make people cry, and it seemed to hurt a little, and Ruan Yu had a hard time not drawing such confusing conclusions from Gu Xiuhan’s mind.

“Can we kiss on the mouth again in a few days? Let me prepare myself mentally.”

Ruan Yu negotiated with Gu Xiuhan in a good and straightforward manner.

“Yes.” Gu Xiuhan whispered.

It’s been a long time, so there’s no rush for a few days.

“Is there anything else you want to do?”

Probably out of compensation, Ruan Yu hooked his fingers around the edge of his pajama pants and childishly stretched them outward, blushing as he asked, “Look at… Look at the tail?”

He knew that Gu Xiuhan liked to see fish tails.

[Ruan Ruan… So cute.]

[It’s really cute.]

It’s not just about Gu Xiuhan, who owes hope and temptation. He just held back hard, and inevitably the focus shifted.

But in reality, it was the heartbeat brought on by that sincerity and cuteness that took up the overwhelming proportion.

Like the tender tips of spring bamboo shoots, they burst out of the thawing soil, tickling one’s bones.

“Wait.” Gu Xiuhan closed the hand of Ruan Yu’s hooked pants edge, not letting him take them off, under the eyes slowly burning hot, voice slightly hoarse, “Can we go to your room?”

“Can, ah.”

In Ruan Yu’s opinion, anyone’s room was the same, and this request from his spouse had to be met.

Ruan Yu lived on the energy planet for quite a few days, the house has a lot of daily necessities and small ornaments like holographic spheres and other things accumulated, and research institute sent miscellaneous pile of spiritual research materials and reports, but the housekeeper robot daily cleaned up after a few hours before it became a mess.

Messy, but clean, and everywhere smelled good, as if even the floor cracks were soaked with the mermaid’s sweet warm body fragrance.

Gu Xiuhan expression as usual, but the heart floated a strange sentence –

[Ruan Ruan’s small bed.]

There was a sense of obsession and anxiety. The words were so sticky that silk could be pulled out from between them.

Ruan Yu was stunned, “?”

The bedding specifications of the base residence were the same, so why was his a “small” bed?

I must say, probably because Ruan Yu used the sheets in a fresh and warm color, next to the low cabinet also placed a small fluorescent jellyfish-shaped lamp, looking a little childish.

And this was confirmed when Gu Xiuhan, a mature-looking, tall male, sat on it.

— he did look like he was sitting on his brother’s bed at home.

[Trying to get dirty…]

Another sentence.

Along with some hazy fragments of subconsciousness–

This was the mermaid prince’s fragrant little fish nest, the private, personal space where he curled his pretty tail and whirred to sleep each night.

And Gu Xiuhan was like an intruder in this space.

He wanted to drench Ruan Yu’s nest with testosterone and his own scent.

The lumpy muscles and mechanical arm that smelled faintly of metal and motor oil brushed the aquamarine sheets.

The fabric became crumpled and damp from sweat after a night out.

…

Ruan Yu’s expression slowly froze, “…”

Not to say that they were already spouses, just based on their previous intimacy to let Gu Xiuhan sleep here overnight was no problem at all. But it just felt like this person was scary, very wrong!

“Well,” Ruan Yu flushed and moved slowly towards the door, “or else…”

“Or else what?”

Gu Xiuhan whispered rhetorical questions, backhandedly clutched Ruan Yu wrist, holding the straddle dragged up, wrapped into the blanket.

The cool mechanical index finger hooked the edge of the pajama pants.

“Not show me the tail?”

The black pupils of the eyes, which were always cold and covered with a thin shell of ice, contained emotions that Ruan Yu had never seen before, fiery and vivid.

“I want to see your tail.”

Gu Xiuhan finally honestly expressed the intention with his mouth.

“Baby…”

“Baby.”

He also repeatedly poked Ruan Yu’s soft spot with this name.

The tone still remained a little cold, hard and mechanical, but the more he practiced it the more gentle and natural it became.

Ruan Yu could not resist this kind of attack, dizzy, pajama pants and shorts have been clutched by Gu Xiuhan’s mechanical hand into a ball.

Ruan Yu hurriedly changed back to his original form, so as not to be like a human being, everything was exposed outside.

Ruan Yu’s ear fins folded back like a kitten being tickled, and he was flopping down into airplane ears, trembling in the hot, wet air flowing from his two thin lips, and the ends of his eyes were flushed red.

“Stop calling, my ear fins seem to be broken by your call…”

The soft and flabby can’t even be carried up.

“Why are you acting like a repeating robot…”

Gu Xiuhan, who was in love with Ruan Yu, practically changed into a living person.

Not only completely unrestrained not to avoid suspicion, but also drooping eyes to steal a glance at the mechanical hand clutched, just stripped from Ruan Yu’s body shorts, and then face cold, heart gently laughing.

[Ruan Ruan… Why is everything so cute?]

The heart sound swirled with unstoppable laughter.

“What’s so funny about shorts with printed little dolphins…” Ruan Yu swallowed his anger for half a day, but still couldn’t stop complaining, “I’m also a sea creature, what’s wrong with wearing a dolphin print? You’re so annoying… Don’t laugh in your heart.”

“Sorry.”

“Then I want to see yours too.”

Is Gu Xiuhan’s shorts printed with some amazing design?

“Okay.”

Generous as can be.

“…”

Okay what okay.

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, he felt wrong, Ruan Yu turned red, pressed Gu Xiuhan’s thundering hand and whispered to stop, “… Forget it, or do not show me.”

His face gradually crawled with sadness.

It’s only been less than an hour since the relationship was confirmed and I’m already crying from the bullying, so what will Gu Xiuhan do in a few days is simply too much to even think about…

But he already said to accept everything. Can not go back on his word. If he wanted to blame someone, Ruan Yu could only blame himself.

Blame this lively little fish that has been swimming around in the frozen lake, fluttering his tail and stirring. Stirred the year-round ice into spring water, finally unstoppable, a wave lapping the shore of the lake.

 

 

 

 

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