Love as a Weapon: A Tsundere Player in a Transmigration Game

18. I am Not Your Mr. Gu (3)

Translator: Annsmiley

The young man still wanted to refuse, but to his surprise, Nan Yu grabbed his hand, just like what Granny Liu did to Nan Yu this evening.

“No need, thank you.”

The young man broke free from Nan Yu’s grip. Nan Yu also realized that he was being rude and had to give up.

“Alright then, will you be here later?”

The young man didn’t expect him to ask that, so he didn’t respond at once. Seeing that Nan Yu looked like a good man, he nodded subconsciously.

After getting the young man’s confirmation, Nan Yu left the bridge.

Looking at Nan Yu’s back, the young man only thought that he was going to eat somewhere, and he also remembered the gentle smile on Nan Yu’s face.

His smile was very warm, just like the way he treated other people. This was the young man’s first impression of Nan Yu.

Nan Yu didn’t go very far. Instead, he walked into an alley. Looking at all those restaurants, he thought that as a singer, the young man needed to take good care of his throat, so he chose a restaurant that had light food on its menu.

After ordering the dishes, Nan Yu sat at a table and waited.

Nan Yu looked at his watch and saw that it was already half past nine. Then Nan Yu summoned a waiter.

“Please help me pack the food.”

“Okay, sir.”

After half an hour, all the dishes that Nan Yu ordered were served. Nan Yu rushed back with the packed food.

When he arrived at the bridge, he saw that the young man was still standing there, and he sighed in relief.

He walked to the young man with the food in his hands.

When the young man saw Nan Yu come back, he was surprised. He also saw the food he was carrying in his hands and understood why Nan Yu had asked him whether he would still be here or not. It turned out that he had gone away to buy food for him.

“Since you don’t want to go to the restaurant with me, I could only have the food packed and take it here,” Nan Yu showed him the takeaway containers in his hands, indicating that he had gone away to buy food for both of them.

Looking at the smile on Nan Yu’s face, the young man felt warmth in his heart. It was the warmth from a strange city.

The young man left a letter to his family and came to this strange city alone. What he faced every day was a strange environment, unfamiliar faces and ridicule of passers-by. Even the wanderers in this city gave him cold shoulder.

Although he didn’t care about it, this stranger who was older than him did let him feel the warmth of the city.

“Thanks.” Gu Dongye felt so touched that it took him a long time before he slowly uttered that word. This time, he was truly grateful.

“Don’t mention it. I shoud be the one to say thanks. Thanks for letting me hear such a beautiful voice and music.”

To others, what he said might be flattery, but only Nan Yu knew that he meant every word he said.

He really liked Gu Dongye’s voice, which was as mysterious as his memory.

“Come on, let’s eat. If we wait any longer, our stomachs might rumble again!”

Nan Yu had to put the takeaway containers on the ground because Gu Dongye didn’t seem to have anything that they could put the container on; he had only a stool and a guitar.

When Gu Dongye saw that Nan Yu was busy opening the takeaway containers after he put them down on the ground, he put the guitar aside and started to help Nan Yu.

Seeing Gu Dongye’s helping hands, Nan Yu replied with a smile.

“I can do it myself.”

“Let me do it.”

Gu Dongye wasn’t very talkative. Perhaps it was part of his personality.

The food was displayed in front of them. Nan Yu told Gu Dongye to help himself while he handed him a pair of chopsticks. Gu Dongye took the chopsticks, and started to eat with Nan Yu.

It was a quiet meal; neither of them talked. They squatted on the bridge and ate under the night sky.

After they finished eating, Nan Yu cleaned up the mess, sorted the garbage and threw it into the recycling dustbins.

Nan Yu came back to the bridge where both of them rested as the food they ate had its journey through the digestive system.

It was quiet, but there was a hint of awkwardness in the air. And the reason for that might be the disappearance of the rock and roll bands nearby, and there were only some street sellers who were hawking goods.

After sitting quietly for a while, Gu Dongye picked up his guitar and played it softly. His smoky voice became the most beautiful scenery in the brightly lit night.

There were so many things in this world…

That we cannot take with us upon life or death.

The only things you can take with you…

Is yourself and your temperament.

…

How great the lyrics were! We could bring nothing when we were born and take nothing we die. We came to this world empty-handed and we left this world empty-handed.

When we came to this world, we were innocent and kind-hearted; and when we died, how many regrets would we leave behind in this world?

Take He Jinyan for example, he told Nan Yu how he felt about him, but instead of being loved back, what he got was a cold corpse. He even never had a chance to ask Nan Yu what his name was and all he had in the end was just a dead body.

Everyone was selfish, just like Nan Yu. He had no feelings for He Jinyan. He only felt sympathy towards him, so he chose to leave him and move on.

What Nan Yu left behind was just a cold corpse, and He Jinyan, who had just felt the warmth of love, fell into the darkness again. The only light in his heart was taken away, so he could only follow Nan Yu, hoping that he would meet Nan Yu again in the Netherworld.

I stumbled towards you…

You can’t leave me behind…

We promised each other before…

Whatever happens, we’ll go through it together.

We’ll live an ordinary life and die quietly.

We desperately embraced each other…

So that we would never be alone.

Powerlessness…

That was what awaited us at the end of our life…

…

How was He Jinyan doing in that world? Now that Nan Yu was gone, he must have found another delicate lover and got married again.

Quietly, Nan Yu got his train of thought back on track. Right now he was in a new world. Why was he thinking about He Jinyan? He must have lost his mind.

He shook his head really hard so that he would stop thinking about that.

“I’m sorry. The song you sing is so emotion-evoking. I couldn’t help but follow the story behind the song.”

Gu Dongye didn’t say anything. He stared at Nan Yu for a while.

And then he slowly said, “You also have a story to tell…”

“Haha, you got me. I’m much older than you, so I’ve gone through way more situations than you have. And naturally, I’ve got many stories to tell…”

“It was like, you have a story and I have wine. And we can sit down and talk about it all night.” Nan Yu said frankly.

“Yes,” Gu Dongye replied after a while.

“It’s getting late. I see that everyone else is gone. I’m sorry to have made you stay with me for so long.”

Nan Yu just realized that it was already half past ten, and most people would’ve fallen asleep right now.

Gu Dongye lowered his eyelids.

Yeah, it was already half past ten. His mom and grandma who were in the countryside must have fallen asleep. And when he was in school, didn’t he also use to go to bed at this hour?

“Not at all. I usually leave when it’s eleven o’clock.”

Because there was seldom anyone paying him for his performance, he could only wait until it was very late when there was no one around. And he would get some tips from the young men who enjoyed nightlife, and most of the time, Gu Dongye would be alone and playing the guitar all by himself.