Bite Your Fingertips (BL) (Complete)

Chapter 51 - Monitoring

Exiting the airport, it was raining outside and the sky was overcast.

Chu Yu didn't call for the driver to pick him up. He was like a small tail following after Lu Shi to Qingchuan Road.

Wei Guanglei called them to come over so Chu Yu, still following Lu Shi, went with him to Wei Guanglei's house for a meal.

Wei Guanglei's house wasn't spacious, with two rooms and one living room. The lighting wasn't good, and it would seem dusky without the lights turned on. The table was also small and could accommodate just four people.

Tao Zhirou wore a black skirt with hair curled into a perm which appeared a bit frizzy, so she had casually bunched it up with a plastic hair tie. Wearing a red floral apron, she stood at the doorway of the kitchen, telling Wei Guanglei to bring Chu Yu fruit before beaming with a smile as she praised how good looking Chu Yu was.

Suddenly, there was a burning smell coming from the kitchen, causing Tao Zhirou to slap her forehead. "Oh darn it, the eggs' burnt!"

When the cordyceps chicken soup was brought to the table, Tao Zhirou also added in a cucumber salad and sat down.

After chatting with Chu Yu for a while, Tao Zhirou turned to Lu Shi. "How was the midterm exams?"

Wei Guanglei, who was chewing on chicken legs, interjected with a big grin, "Ma, my Lu-Ge has never taken anything but first place!"

Tao Zhirou glared at Wei Guanglei. "Even chicken legs can't stop your mouth? I asked Lu Shi, not you. Eat your meal in peace, quit butting in."

Wei Guanglei tapped his chopsticks on his bowl. "Ma, please look clearly. I haven't eaten, I'm drinking soup."

Tao Zhirou glared at him again yet couldn't help but smile.

"Lu Shi, you've worked hard on the exams, eat more."

Grabbing an empty bowl to pour Chu Yu and Lu Shi each a bowl of soup, Tao Zhirou reminisced as she said, "Your mother used to be first in the grade in every exam. From childhood to when we grew up, first place had never been robbed by other students."

Chu Yu was holding a bowl and sipping soup. Hearing this sentence, he reacted after a while and realized that Tao Zhirou should be talking about Lu Shi's biological mother.

Wei Guanglei interjected again, "Ai, this reflects the importance of heredity! I have lousy grades. Among your best friend trio, Zhu Zhifei's and Lu-Ge's mother probably ranked among the best, while my mother ranked at the bottom. Right, Ma?"

Wei Guanglei was slapped on the top of the head by Tao Zhirou. "Your nonsense-talking never ends, still want to eat or not?"

Wei Guanglei hugged his head and exaggeratedly bawled, "Who am I, what's my name, why am I here? Ah, I lost my memory!"

Chu Yu couldn't help it, his head was tilted with a smile from beginning to end.

As he smiled, he was also quite envious- envious of this relaxed and intimate relationship.

After swatting Wei Guanglei's head, Tao Zhirou continued, "I can still remember until now how your mother loved smiling very much and was especially beautiful. She was the kind of girl you couldn't help but take a few more glances at once you noticed her. Half of the boys in the school liked her, and I've lost count of how many times I had helped pass love letters to her. But I think your mother was definitely worthy of being a very talented person, she deserved the best."

Thinking that Lu Shi had been back to Qingchuan Road for so long yet hadn't mentioned family affairs, Tao Zhirou changed the subject. "Zhu Zhifei came to find Shitou while crying yesterday, saying that his mother had enrolled him in a cram school. His two days on weekends are basically all occupied..."

Tao Zhirou talked about trivial little things, but Chu Yu was very happy to hear them and didn't want to miss a word of it.

Returning to school that evening, Chu Yu was dragged by Dream-Ge to read a new series that was being serialized - a shounen basketball one. Dream-Ge could be seen gesticulating, he was quite fired up. He was eager to have a basketball hoop in their dorm room so he could practice slam dunking everyday.

After eleven o'clock, Chu Yu went upstairs humming a song and found that he didn't have the key, so he knocked on neighboring Lu Shi's door.

Lu Shi was reading a book so Chu Yu didn't make much noise and simply sat in the chair next to him and read comics on his phone.

While reading, the screen went dark. "Shit, my phone's dead! Lu Shi Lu Shi, help!"

Lu Shi casually threw his phone to him.

Chu Yu nimbly entered the password and unlocked it. The interface of an audio app appeared on the screen. A nameless audio file with only a string of numbers remarked was in pause.

Chu Yu didn't care and was about to exit to continue reading comics, but he accidentally pressed the play button with his finger.

["Even if that mixed breed Lu Shi knows, so what? He won't be able to find evidence! He won't find where that woman is!"]

Chu Yu quivered, quickly pressing pause.

The sharp female voice abruptly vanished.

It was so silent in the bedroom that the sound of a needle falling to the ground could be heard.

Chu Yu's mind was a little confused. He looked helplessly at Lu Shi, his lips moved, but he didn't know what to say.

Lu Shi held a pencil in his hand, his eyes were still on the open book on the desk. "You heard?"

His tone was steady, but his lower jaw was taut.

He was nervous.

Chu Yu nodded and replied carefully, "Mn, I heard it."

He hesitated for two seconds. "Is this... Fang Weiyun's voice?"

Lu Shi's fingertips which were holding the pencil turned white, the shadow of the writing tool on the paper trembled slightly.

"Nn, it is."

Chu Yu didn't speak.

Lu Shi discovered his silence.

The light in his eyes was extinguished bit by bit until it was all annihilated in the darkness.

After an unknown period of time, Lu Shi slowly raised his head, looked at Chu Yu, and said hoarsely, "As you've guessed, I've been monitoring her phone calls."