Pheromone Deficiency Syndrome chapter 34

Kid

After Gu Jinyi cried himself tired, he became more obedient.

Xie Huaizhou carried him back to the room, and he quietly curled up into a small ball. Although he had gained some flesh after arriving at the Xie family, Xie Huaizhou could still feel his thin spine when he held him.

The two didn’t speak anymore. Gu Jinyi was exhausted, and Xie Huaizhou didn’t want to break the tenderness of the moment.

But Gu Jinyi wasn’t sleepy. It wasn’t late yet, far from his usual bedtime.

He looked at Xie Huaizhou’s face by the light and reached out to touch the black bracelet on Xie Huaizhou’s wrist, his fingers rubbing the small badge, a reward he received at Lande College.

He gave Xie Huaizhou a smile.

That was a small segment of his own life, and now Xie Huaizhou had filled in the missing piece in his life.

He pressed his face against Xie Huaizhou’s hand, an affectionate gesture devoid of any desire.

Like a cat seeking warmth in the rain.

“Huaizhou,” he called softly.

“Yeah?”

Gu Jinyi didn’t really have anything to say. He just wanted to call out that name.

His lips lightly brushed against Xie Huaizhou’s knuckles, slightly moist, touching Xie Huaizhou’s warm skin.

“Thank you,” he said.

Xie Huaizhou lowered his head to look at him.

Gu Jinyi’s eyes were a bit swollen, having cried for too long, his eyelids reddened, looking pitiful.

He received Gu Jinyi’s thanks but felt no joy. Instead, he wondered, during those days when Gu Jinyi cried in his absence, was there anyone to comfort him?

He had once been so jealous of Chu Miyun, jealous that Chu Miyun could touch and accompany Gu Jinyi.

But now he sincerely hoped that during those past days when Gu Jinyi was in distress, Chu Miyun had been there for him.

He lowered his head and kissed Gu Jinyi’s trembling eyelashes.

……

The next day, Xie Huaizhou really took Gu Jinyi to the Duota amusement park.

This was something he had arranged a few days ago, deliberately leaving a day free despite the disapproving looks from his secretaries.

Before arriving at the amusement park, Gu Jinyi was worried, suspecting that Xie Huaizhou might have rented the entire park again. If there were only the two of them in such a large park, it would be somewhat embarrassing.

Fortunately, Xie Huaizhou understood that an amusement park was different from a confession spot. He only booked a special channel, allowing them to enter the park without queuing.

Sitting in the sightseeing car of the amusement park, surrounded by parents with their children, the car was filled with the chatter of children and occasionally the laughter of a few young couples.

Gu Jinyi quietly looked out the window. The Duota amusement park was built when he was ten years old. At that time, it was hailed as the most advanced amusement park in the entire empire. He had seen it on the Ipad and had asked his mother to visit.

But at that time, Su Miao was not feeling well. The effects of her genetic illness often kept her bedridden, so he stopped asking after mentioning it twice, pretending he didn’t want to go at all.

Now, more than ten years later, this former “Empire’s No. 1 Amusement Park” had been replaced by other newly built large areas.

But as an old amusement park, it still attracted many visitors.

The sightseeing car soon arrived at the station.

Gu Jinyi got off the car with Xie Huaizhou, standing in the middle of the amusement park but not knowing where to go.

Xie Huaizhou himself, didn’t quite fit in with the amusement park.

In a park full of fairy-tale castles and buildings, although he looked handsome and elegant, standing on the square in black clothes, he didn’t look like a prince riding a white horse, but rather like a dragon transformed into a human, imprisoning a princess.

But Xie Huaizhou himself didn’t realize it and was still carefully checking the route.

“What do you want to do first?” Xie Huaizhou asked Gu Jinyi.

Actually, Gu Jinyi didn’t have any particular project he wanted to try.

He looked at the recommended routes on the huge display screen and randomly pointed to route A. “Let’s just follow this one.”

Xie Huaizhou had no objections.

……

In fact, when Gu Jinyi was on Roselle Star, he had also been to a few amusement parks with Chu Miyun and Qu Xi. In his opinion, these large amusement parks were all more or less the same.

But Xie Huaizhou’s reaction made him find it particularly interesting.

Compared to him, Xie Huaizhou, maybe it was because he had never set foot in these places before, he couldn’t even understand the meaning of some of the attractions.

When they plummeted from a height of three thousand meters, everyone around was screaming wildly, but Xie Huaizhou remained expressionless. After they landed, he asked, “What’s there to scream about? Is three thousand meters that high?”

Gu Jinyi’s heart was also pounding wildly. He didn’t really want to deal with this top-ranked mecha major.

Then he went with Xie Huaizhou to visit the haunted castle in the park. As they passed through staircases and corners, robots dressed as “ghosts” would often jump out, with extremely realistic appearances. The screams in the castle were even louder than the three-thousand-meter drop just now.

Gu Jinyi wasn’t too afraid, after all, he had undergone simulated battlefield training at school.

But he didn’t expect Xie Huaizhou to be even more extreme. Xie Huaizhou reached out and grabbed a small ghost robot, turning it over to examine its model.

“It seems to be produced by our company,” Xie Huaizhou said thoughtfully. “The model is quite old. Duota Amusement Park should update its props.”

Gu Jinyi was taken aback for a moment, then burst into laughter, tears almost streaming down his face.

He realized that Xie Huaizhou was much more interesting than the amusement park.

But Xie Huaizhou misunderstood his laughter and asked him, “Do you really like this amusement park?”

Gu Jinyi didn’t know if he should say “yes” or not.

He quite liked it here, but it seemed not because of the amusement park itself.

It was because someone cared about his childhood regrets and incongruously accompanied him wandering around the park.

But he soon heard Xie Huaizhou say, “The Xie family can also invest in amusement parks…”

Gu Jinyi stood up, interrupting him, “I don’t like it that much, it’s fine to come occasionally.”

Duota Amusement Park was large, and after visiting several attractions, it was already evening.

There was a fireworks show every night here, as was customary for every amusement park. Now, the competition was fierce, and each amusement park put a lot of effort into their fireworks.

Gu Jinyi also dragged Xie Huaizhou into the crowd.

He had seen many grand fireworks displays before, such as the closing ceremony at Lande Academy, but here, surrounded by couples with smiles on their faces, he couldn’t help but feel excited too.

But because there were too many people in this viewing area, he didn’t know where the commotion was coming from. Suddenly, the crowd surged like waves, carrying them forward.

Gu Jinyi was pushed by several people, involuntarily moving forward.

He turned his head, wanting to tell Xie Huaizhou to hold hands, but when he looked back, all he could see were unfamiliar faces.

He got separated from Xie Huaizhou.

In the crowded sea of people, just because they didn’t hold hands for a moment, they were dispersed to different corners.

Gu Jinyi’s heart sank straight down.

Of course, he knew that getting separated in an amusement park was nothing to fear. Xie Huaizhou was not a child, and now he couldn’t free up his hands to use his Ipad in the crowded place, but once the crowd calmed down, he would quickly be able to contact Xie Huaizhou.

But he still felt scared uncontrollably.

He had been abandoned before.

When that person left him, it was also such an inadvertent release of his hand, a turn around, and never coming back.

Now, surrounded by crowds, people were everywhere, and even the air became thin.

But he felt like he was standing on a remote and desolate planet again, with the sound of whistling wind echoing around him, like a knife cutting through the air.

He trembled, shaking like a withered leaf drifting in the wind.

He kept scanning the crowd, trying to push through the crowd to find Xie Huaizhou.

But before he could take a few steps, he felt a strong hand break through the crowd and firmly grab him.

The grip was strong, even a little painful.

He turned his head and saw Xie Huaizhou, who appeared out of nowhere.

Then, in his astonishment, Xie Huaizhou, relying on his height and physique, forcefully parted the crowd, hugged him tightly, and protected him in front of his chest, leading him to stand on the platform away from the crowd.

The crowd no longer surged around, starting to become still.

The fireworks display began, with orange and red fireworks bursting in the sky, constantly changing into different patterns and spiraling upwards.

Under a small retro platform, long branch oil lamps hung under the eaves, swaying in the wind, just enough to illuminate the clearly defined silhouette of Xie Huaizhou’s face.

“Sorry, I went to buy something, and when I turned around, you were squeezed away by the crowd,” Xie Huaizhou’s expression didn’t look too good. He really lacked experience in amusement parks and underestimated the surging crowds.

However, Gu Jinyi just stared blankly at him. “Then how did you find me, with so many people just now?”

Even Xie Huaizhou couldn’t explain it.

“I spotted you in the crowd at a glance,” he replied. “Very conspicuous.”

Among so many unfamiliar faces, only Gu Jinyi seemed to have a halo around him, blocking out everyone else.

This answer amused Gu Jinyi.

He touched his chest, and it seemed like his heart, which had just plummeted vertically, returned to its original position.

He asked Xie Huaizhou, “What did you go to buy?”

Xie Huaizhou took out a delicate gemstone ice cream from the storage space.

Seeing Gu Jinyi’s puzzled look, he explained, “I saw many children holding this.”

Then he handed this slightly deformed ice cream to Gu Jinyi.

“Happy holiday, kid,” he said.

That day was the Empire’s designated Children’s Day, so there were so many children in the amusement park.

Gu Jinyi took the ice cream, took a bite, it was mint-flavored.

“I’m already 26,” he reminded Xie Huaizhou, “and a dad with a kid.”

Xie Huaizhou was unfazed. “26 is still a kid.”

Gu Jinyi chuckled and looked up at the fireworks.

The fireworks display wasn’t particularly special, but after the fireworks burned out, instead of debris, they turned into pink petals and various colored fragments of gems that fell down.

It was like a starry shower of light.

Amidst the cheers and laughter of the crowd, he heard Xie Huaizhou say.

“If only I had met you when you were a kid.”

“When I saw Shang Yin and Xiaonian together the other day, I was a little jealous.”

“If I had met you when you were four or five, I would have wanted to snatch you back home and hide you too.”

Xie Huaizhou’s tone was very flat, not like he was speaking sweet nothings, but truly expressing a regret.

Gu Jinyi reached out, and the petals and round gemstones fell into his palm. When he let go, these exquisite and beautiful little things scattered like flowing sand and would soon degrade and disappear on their own.

The fireworks display ended.

The crowd that had stopped began to move again.

The oil lamp under the platform continued to sway, casting shadows of him and Xie Huaizhou intertwined together.

He turned his head, and Xie Huaizhou under the lamp no longer looked like a dragon guarding treasure, but like a handsome king in a high position.

Xie Huaizhou held his hand and whispered softly, “Let’s go home, kid.”