It was not yet eight o'clock when the two returned home. Yu Xinyan heard the sound of the door opening in the living room. She walked to the entrance hall and saw Su Chi holding the wall with one hand to change his shoes, while Su Huanyi was beside him and obediently hugging their coats.
"Why are you back so early?"
The party was always at least two hours long. Considering the time spent on the road, the two must have stayed for only about an hour.
Yu Xinyan was horrified. "Did you guys get kicked out?"
Su Huanyi admired her rich imagination. "I got dizzy from the wine, so Big Brother brought me back."
Yu Xinyan was relieved, but then she thought of the bump on his head and said, "You didn't have much to drink, did you? I'll ask the kitchen to make some soup for both of you. Have some before you rest."
Su Chi changed his shoes and took his jacket back from Su Huanyi. "I don't need it." He went upstairs, his back straight and his steps steady, using his strength to explain how "unnecessary" the soup was.
Su Huanyi hadn't eaten much in the evening and was now hungry. "I want to eat some boiled rice."
Yu Xinyan disagreed, "No, you can't have boiled rice, there's soy sauce in it. It won't look good if you get a scar on your head."
"With the hair in the way, it wouldn't be visible."
Yu Xinyan was cautious. "What if you go bald later?"
"...Then I wouldn't look good whether I have a scar or not."
"..."
Su Huanyi ended up getting a bowl of soup and chicken stew noodles. They were so bland that it looked like he was eating a vegetarian meal. He was halfway through his meal when Su Jitong came back. He immediately drew a chair and sat down to inquire, "How was the party? Did you have a good time? Did you make any friends?"
Su Huanyi answered one by one, "It was good. I had a good time, and I did make some friends."
Su Jitong was still unsure. "Remember to keep in touch after you've made friends, as relationships are made by talking."
Su Huanyi remembered the original owner's one-sided chats on WeChat and silently drank his soup.
After eating and drinking, he went upstairs and took a shower before rubbing his medicine on once more. He didn't ask Su Chi for help as he figured the latter was tired; he didn't want to go and annoy him.
After rubbing the bump with difficulty, Su Huanyi wandered back to bed and opened his phone.
The screen opened and he was greeted with a flood of WeChat alerts!
What the hell is going on?
Su Huanyi flipped through them one by one and found messages from his friends' list and five or six pending verification requests. The attitude towards him was much friendlier towards him than before.
[Xu Zheng]: "[Video] This is a follow-up."
[Zhou Qingcheng]: "Fuck! You're so funny. Why didn't I find you so funny before? Let's hang out together next time!"
[Sun Heyu]: "[Picture] [Picture] Zheng Qin slapped Miss White in the face! Ah no, her last name isn't White."
.....
Wow wow, he's not a frog anymore! He's a man with friends too! Su Huanyi was so emotional that he even wanted to take a screenshot and send it to Su Chi to see, but held back.
In the end, he only sent a message to Su Chi to share his joy.
[Su Huanyi]: "I have friends now!" [Smiling.jpg]
Su Chi did not reply, so he turned to continue chatting with his newly created friends.
Most of the people who came to chat with him on their initiative were curious and gossipy, but as friends, no matter what purpose they came with at the beginning, it was good to be sincere in the end.
Just like Zhou Qingcheng, he came to him as a troublemaker but became a friend in the end. He doesn't hold onto one emotion for long, which makes such a person easier to get along with.
[Su Huanyi]: "You for today. Though I must have offended Ms. White."
[Zhou Qingcheng]: "It's okay, you've offended many people."
Su Huanyi, "...."
[Su Huanyi]: "Do you know which family Ms. White comes from? She doesn't look like a famous lady either."
[Zhou Qingcheng]: "Hey, it's not like this young master knows everyone."
The tone of his voice was contemptuous, sounding more like "not everyone is worthy of being known by this young master".
Su Huanyi sighed. This was the highest level of pretentiousness.
Before going to bed, Zhou Qingcheng asked him to go to the shooting range together with Sun Heyu and his sister in a few days.
[Zhou Qingcheng]: "Sun Heyu's sister is very nice. Let's get to know each other. Good night!"
Su Huanyi said it was okay, said good night to him and turned off his phone to sleep.
At the table the next day, Su Huanyi pretended to inadvertently share Zhou Qingcheng's invitation to go out to play, proving his might twice!
Su Jitong was delighted and stroked the handful of strands standing up on top of his head. "Good, good, go out with friends more often– Why is your hair always sticking up?"
Su Huanyi hadn't noticed the top of his head. "Is it always sticking out? Maybe I don't sleep well."
Su Jitong muttered, "Yeah, I've stroked it out for you several times." You're like a Teletubby.
Su Chi across the table looked up and said nothing, continuing to lower his head and eat.
Su Huanyi wandered around the living room after breakfast with his mobile phone, chatting with Zhou Qingcheng and the others. The four of them had formed a group chat called [Shooting Squad].
As they were chatting, Su Chi held the safflower oil and came over. "Did you apply it on last night?"
Su Huanyi didn't even raise his head. "Yeah..... I applied it to myself."
Su Chi glanced at the phone with the rapid screen of messages. "You can chat later, I have to apply your medicine on."
The phone fell on Su Huanyi's lap with a plop. He was surprised. "You are taking the initiative to rub on my medicine?"
Was it poisoned?
Su Chi sneered and turned around to leave.
Su Huanyi hurriedly reached out and tugged at the corner of his coat. "Don't go! It's just that I was so happy, joy overtook my mind!"
Su Chi turned back again, parting his hair and rubbing his little bump without any tenderness.
Su Huanyi couldn't type, so he could only hiss in pain and post an expression package in the group chat. The opposite side immediately condemned seeing his perfunctory replies.
[Zhou Qingcheng]: "Why do I feel that you are responding so coldly? What are you doing?"
Su Huanyi sent a voice-over: "I hit my head, hiss.....so my brother is rubbing medicine on the bump."
[Zhou Qingcheng]: "!!!"
Su Huanyi was pleased that the new friends he had made cared about him.
[Zhou Qingcheng]: "Which brother are you meaning...Su Chi?? Su Chi will put medicine on you!"
Su Huanyi, "..."
Su Chi heard the voice message he sent, and his hands didn't stop. "What? Do you want to show our "brotherly" love to your new friends?"
Su Huanyi thought he was taunting again. "Do you want me to say 'my brother is reluctantly rubbing on me medicine'?"
Su Chi pulled the strands that were sticking up and said, "If this gets in the way again, I'll pluck it out for you."
Su Huanyi remembered Yu Xinyan's bald prediction and was instantly silenced.
The movement on his head then slowed down a bit. Although it was not quite gentle, it wasn't like a drill.
Su Huanyi and Zhou Qingcheng had an appointment for the weekend.
The shooting range was in the centre of town and was owned by Zhou Qingcheng's cousin, so he could just brush his face if he wanted to go play.
Zhou Qingcheng had been there several times with Sun Heyu, and now they were already in the lobby. A girl was standing next to Sun Heyu that looked to be in her early twenties. She had a sweet, fresh look and lively almond eyes.
Sun Yue looked towards the entrance in anticipation. "Where is that young master adopted by the Su family? Didn't they say he was different from the rumours?"
Sun Heyu said, "Don't mention the adoption when you see him later."
Sun Yue pouted her lips in disapproval. She had been exposed to the high society scene since she was in elementary school and had never seen this young master adopted by the Su family. It is said that he has only attended three parties so far. It seems that the Su family doesn't pay much attention to him.
Sun Yue's thoughts were written all over her face. Zhou Qingcheng saw it and had no intention of explaining it to her. Seeing was believing, and Sun Yue herself had to witness how different Su Huanyi was.
Within a few minutes, a figure appeared at the door. The light from outside was strong, and the man's long-form was covered in a halo of light as he stepped in, looking like a special effect from a movie.
Sun Yue froze for a moment, not reacting to who it was, and then she heard Zhou Qingcheng wave and shout, "Su Huanyi!"
What! Was that the Su family's adopted son? Sun Yue was shocked, and she took a few more serious looks at the person.
With a few steps, Su Huanyi had already approached. He was wearing a slightly slim-fitting dark T-shirt with a somewhat large neckline, revealing his long, slender neck and beautiful collarbone. The red mole on the side of his neck set off his cool white skin in a vibrant way.
Shit ... adopted? Where was he adopted from? She also wants to pick one up.
"Young Master Zhou, Young Master Sun, Miss Sun." Su Huanyi greeted one by one, then he saw Sun Yue covering her heart with an excited face.
Su Huanyi: "???"
"You're here at last! Let's go in!" Zhou Qingcheng hooked Su Huanyi's shoulder and led him forward. "Have you ever shot a gun before?"
Su Huanyi felt that this sentence sounded very ambiguous, but because there was a girl present, he suppressed the subtle visual image. "No."
Zhou Qingcheng's eyes immediately deepened and his smile widened. "Wow!"
Su Huanyi, "..." Shit, so I was right! I wasn't thinking too much!
Zhou Qingcheng led them into a separate room and began to instruct Su Huanyi who had never shot a gun before.
He said, "Since you've never shot a gun, I'll teach you the posture. Your posture should be relaxed, and the weight should be placed between your legs. Straighten the wrist, the muscles must exert the appropriate force...."
Su Huanyi felt that something was wrong when he heard his instructions. "Wait."
Zhou Qingcheng, "Oh? What?"
Su Huanyi requested, "Just let the staff guide me."
....
With the help of the enthusiastic staff, he was finally on the right track.
Bang, bang, bang ... A few rounds later, Sun Yue looked at the person shooting next to her.
The young man's shoulders were straight, the butterfly bones on his back shrugged slightly as he rested his gun, and his waistline was strong, lean, and beautiful.
Bang!
Su Huanyi lowered his gun after another shot. His well-defined jaw changed from tense to relaxed, his throat moved slightly, and the corners of his lips arched into a satisfied side smile, looking very attractive.
Sun Yue followed his line of sight and looked at his target – he had fired six shots in total, five of which were off target.
There was one more shot on Zhou Qingcheng's target next to them before he also looked over.
"...." Zhou Qingcheng and Sun Heyu, who was watching from the sidelines, were directly speechless.
"Your posture and confidence looked cool as if you had won a ten-ring!"
Su Huanyi still had the posture of a great master, and he withdrew his hand calmly. "Shooting is about skill and heart. I don't have the former, so I'll make up for the latter."
The corners of Sun Heyu's mouth twitched. "You did it a little too well."
Su Huanyi said, "You have to occupy one of the two ends. No mediocrity."
The other three, "....."
It was already close to dinner time when they came out of the shooting range, so they booked a private room at the Cantonese restaurant next door.
Su Huanyi and Zhou Qingcheng were sitting side by side, while the Sun siblings sat opposite them. They were chatting about the day when Sun Heyu suddenly let out an "eh" and pointed at Su Huanyi's shoulder. "Why is your shoulder all red?"
Zhou Qingcheng smiled and lowered his head to look at it. He immediately "groaned." "It's true. There are deep and light red marks. Is it because of the recoil? It's not that bad. How come I don't have any?"
Su Huanyi was unable to see his shoulder, so he rubbed at it as he said, "It's fine, I'm prone to leaving marks." He lifted his sleeve to reveal his elbow. "Look, it's a random bump from the other day."
Everyone in the room was shocked. How random does it have to be to get a bump like that?
Sun Yue was still a young girl and had never seen such a horrible bruise. "How did you get it? You weren't abused, were you?"
"I was picking something up and knocked my elbow." He felt the need to do justice to the Su family. "My family loves me, they've never abused me."
Sun Yue felt that Su Huanyi had a good temperament. She dared to ask, "Then how come you hardly attended our parties before?"
Su Huanyi sipped his tea coyly. "I have low self-esteem."
The three at the table: "...."
When the meal was about to be finished, Su Jitong called and asked him where he was and when he was going to be done eating. He said that Su Chi would take that route and asked him to get a ride back in Su Chi's car.
Su Huanyi hung up the phone and sent Su Chi the address. Less than ten minutes later, Su Chi had arrived.
"I'll go first."
Zhou Qingcheng asked, "What's wrong? You have something to do later."
"My big brother is here to pick me up."
The remaining three were shocked. "Su Chi personally drove to pick you up!"
The concept of hierarchy in their circle was stronger than that of the ordinary class. Who toasted, who drove, and who paid for the drinks was a reflection of their status, not to mention Su Chi, who was like a strong pine on a snowy mountain and was looked up to!
Su Huanyi also reacted in hindsight. He was dropped off at the shooting range by the driver. Su Chi went out to do business today and should be driving himself.
Holy shit, he was making Su Chi drive for him.
Su Huanyi thought as he walked down the red velvet carpet. The development of the situation was unexpected. He was trying to live under his big brother, but he was now making him rub medicine and drive him.
He was getting more and more presumptuous.