Chapter 52: Tan Jiao 08 (3)
“Hey bro, what’s so funny?” I teased.
Raising his face to me, Wu Yu fixed his seemingly intimidating gaze at me and said nothing. After what felt like an eternity, he abruptly moved his hand along the bed while leaning toward me. Having sat close to the bed, I became petrified at that moment as I sensed his scent approaching me. It was the scent of a man’s warm, muscular body. My heart raced frantically as I sat there in agony, feeling the dangerous aura coming from him. He said nothing, but I was beyond tense on the inside. However, I still managed to put on a nonchalant front while turning my face away.
A rustling noise came from behind me before I caught a glimpse of Wu Yu putting on a T-shirt.
“I’ll go wash up,” he said as he stood up.
“Oh.”
He opened a side door in his small place, revealing the blazing morning sun outside. Grabbing his toothbrush and towel, he squatted before an outdoor tap to start washing up. I looked at him with the sun shining on his gray T-shirt. He seemed to have really embraced his laborious life, as his current appearance barely reminded me of that clean-cut, studious-looking man on that ship. Yet, from time to time, the shadow of that gentle and adorable man would appear behind those eyes when he lowered his face to smile.
After washing his face, he put his head under the tap, washing his hair and trying his best to avoid the wound on his head. Finally, he dried his head with the towel and came back to the room. He looked at me and said, “All done. Have you had breakfast?”
“Not yet. I came as soon as I got the information.”
He let out another brief smile. “Let’s have some food. We can talk there.”