After Rebirth: What Should I Do if My Boyfriend Has a Boyfriend?

 Jiang Yi doesn’t drink or smoke, but his boyfriend smokes. Chu Chuan started smoking in high school but Jiang Yi only found out after becoming roommates in university. 

    Back when he stayed in the dorms of A University, aside from him and Lin Qiu, the other two both smoked. 

    When they talked before bed in the dorms, Zhong Yu would chat on and on about the girl in the Foreign Languages department next door with Chu Chuan— who sat opposite him. Lin Qiu would lay on the bed and listen quietly, not saying a thing. Jiang Yi would lean on the bed, pretending to be playing his game when in reality, he was quietly eavesdropping. 

    Zhong Yu would chat nonstop for about five sentences before Chu Chuan would reply lazily. Until Zhong Yu throws out an “I heard the girl liked you for a long time already”, then Chu Chuan’s fingers would pause on his phone screen and he’d make a sound of acknowledgement, looking interested but wanted a little more. 

     Separated by a bed, Jiang Yi stole a glance at the person sitting opposite him anxiously, but no one noticed. Zhong Yu raised his brow with satisfaction, “I would’ve thought you were gay if you didn’t react after that last sentence.” 

    Chu Chuan didn’t agree nor deny, asking about the girl’s information as if the moment he finds that the girl’s appearance was his type, he’d immediately ask the girl out on a date. 

    Jiang Yi’s heart was on fire, yet he couldn’t step in on their conversation and could only shout angrily out of the blue, “I said—” 

    After that bout of impulsiveness, he noticed that Zhong Yu and Chu Chuan both stopped talking, watching him intently till Jiang Yi’s palm oozed cold sweat. 

    Seeing that he never completed his sentence, Zhong Yu reminded him kindly, “What did you want to say?” 

    Jiang Yi “…”

    In the end, he could only grit his teeth and continue, “I wanted to say that, can the both of you not… not smoke all the time? I feel like every time I stay in the dorms, the smell of smoke stays on my body.” 

    He talked absently as he opened his Wechat, spamming Lin Qiu like crazy, “I’m in hot fire right now Qiu Shan save me!” 

    He had only realised that it got awkward after typing. 

    Lin Qiu was still asking about his reason on the phone. 

    Jiang Yi no longer cared about anything else, typing furiously onto his keyboard, “Fuck I’ve been secretly in love with the girl they’ve been talking about for a long time! I couldn’t control it any longer so I cut them off— just help me!” 

    It was only after he pressed send that he realised what bullshit he was spewing. Jiang Yi closed his eyes in despair. After calming down, he noticed that what he said wasn’t really wrong. 

     He couldn’t exactly say that he’s liked Chu Chuan for a long time already and couldn’t bear watching Chu Chuan talk about girls so he cut them off, right? 

    He was comforting himself on one end while on the other end, Lin Qiu opened his mouth, “Actually, I also think it’s not very good for you guys to smoke in the dorms all the time.” 

    Chu Chuan, “Then we’ll smoke on the balcony.” 

    Zhong Yu sneered, “Fine then, we’ll go to the balcony. You two are like little girls who can’t smell smoke, we might have ended up rooming with two girls.” 

    And so the smoking segment concluded, Chu Chuan and Zhong Yu also stopped talking about the girl. Jiang Yi sagged into his bed and sighed a breath of relief, but he couldn’t stop thinking, What is Chu Chuan’s attitude? 

    If he really did have interest in the girl, then why would he tease him like that? 

    It was a sleepless night. 

    When he woke up, Chu Chuan had asked about yesterday. Jiang Yi had only found out then that the smoking excuse was completely useless. He stuttered as he tried to avoid the eyes as dark as the abyss, but he couldn’t say anything in the end.  

    He could say a thousand times “Chu Chuan I like you” in front of the mirror, but when it came to the real deal he couldn’t even spit out the “Chu”. It was probably because the love songs he listened to didn’t give him courage. 

    Jiang Yi’s mind was in turmoil as he tried changing the topic daily. He was so caught up in his guilt and misery that he had missed the disappointment in Chu Chuan’s eyes. 

    Since he couldn’t get the answer he wanted from Jiang Yi, Chu Chuan could only find Lin Qiu. 

    Said person was confused, he didn’t understand why Chu Chuan was so caught up yesterday. He confessed, “He said he liked the girl from the Foreign Language department for a long time already.” 

    Chu Chuan “…”

    His face changed, his eyes dropping dangerously cold, his lips pressed into a straight line as the anger pierced his heart. 

    He ended up stopping Jiang Yi after class, asking expressionlessly, “You like someone?” 

    Jiang Yi stuttered, “Y-yes.” How did you know? 

    Chu Chuan continued asking, “I heard you’ve liked them for a long time already?” 

    Jiang Yi’s heart was in his mouth, “…Yes. You—” You know? 

    Chu Chuan’s face was dark as he spat out word after word, “I heard it was the girl from the Foreign Languages department?” 

    Jiang Yi had already been asked stupid by him, subconsciously answering ‘yes’. He only returned to his senses after seeing Chu Chuan’s eyes as cold as ice, shaking his head, “No, not her.” 

    It then did he realise what Chu Chuan getting angry meant. Jiang Yi suddenly smiled, the anxiety that had been plaguing him for days disappeared in a poof. 

    “It’s you~” He heard his voice float cheerfully in the air, “The person I like is you.” 

    His response was the lips Chu Chuan pressed against his. 

    Jiang Yi stood dazed— then pushed Chu Chuan away, covering his mouth as he hacked. He wiped the tears in the corner of his eyes, whining, “You taste like smoke.” 

    Chu Chuan “…”

    Oh, he almost forgot. After he heard Lin Qiu’s words, he smoked 3 cigarettes in anger and— 

    Forgot to chew gum. 

    After a breakthrough in their relationship, their first kiss was completely different from his imagination. In anger, Chu Chuan had decided to quit smoking. 

    After quitting smoking there’s another part. The part of losing his phone, but I can’t continue writing. (t/n: no im not saying this as a tl-er writer3 said this im innocent)

    My Jiang: Even I’m scared of Chuan ge getting mad. 

    Thanking the food for the cute fishies and flowers… 

t/n: i’ve decided (cuz i took on too many projects) to just update once or twice a week;; sorryyyyy 

But anyways, i made a kofi and for the cheap price of selling ur soul to the devil (paying 3 dollars) and join my discord, you’ll get advanced chapters! Just a few, we’ll have to see how many I can translate in time