Chasing Ethan to the Ends of the World Chapter 10

Adrian Xie stood there without moving.

Ethan He stopped in front of him, keeping a perfect social distance between them.

"Did you hear all that?"

"Um."

"Then let's---" Ethan He wanted to laugh more lightly, but the painful part was moved, and the corners of his mouth that were raised fell down. In the end, he chose to remain silent.

Adrian Xie frowned, noticing that Ethan He's movements and expressions were strange. He wanted to get closer to take a look, but Ethan He lowered his eyelashes and dodged quickly.

Adrian Xie's outstretched hand was forced to stop in mid-air. "Look up." His voice was low and full of obvious displeasure.

Ethan He didn't move. He looked down and saw the tip of Adrian Xie's shoe entering his line of sight, so he stared at him in silence.

"Look up." Adrian Xie repeated in a calm voice.

But Ethan He didn't want Adrian Xie to see him like this at all. He stood there stubbornly and refused to move. The tip of his shoe was closer in his sight. Ethan He even thought about it for a moment - how close was Adrian Xie to him if the tip of his shoe was so close?

Before he had time to figure it out, Adrian Xie gave him the conclusion with his actions.

Very close.

So close that his chin could be forcibly grasped.

Adrian Xie held his chin, his slender fingertips covering half of his cheek, just touching the red and swollen part of Ethan He, and forced him to raise his head with unquestionable force.

Ethan He frowned in pain.

Adrian Xie saw the pain in his eyes and subconsciously loosened his grip.

"Ye Ziqi did it?"

Ethan He didn't know why he was angry. Was it because Ye Ziqi had attacked him, or because of the content of their conversation? He had no way of knowing, and for the time being he didn't have the energy to guess.

The feeling of giving up came so quickly that he had no energy to face Adrian Xie's questioning.

Ethan He turned his head and avoided Adrian Xie's shackles.

"What he said was true, and what I said was true. I fell in love with you the first time we met. It was superficial and clichéd love at first sight," Ethan He laughed at himself. "I came to the studio just to get close to you, and I went to find Ye Ziqi after you broke up. Every time I approached you was premeditated."

But what happened afterwards was not like that, including sending him to the hospital and being invited to the horse farm, but Ethan He didn't say it out loud.

If Adrian Xie wanted to break up with him, it didn't matter whether he said it or not.

In fact, he didn't sleep the whole night in the tent when Adrian Xie wanted to K!ss him. Although he knew that this K!ss might not mean anything to Adrian Xie, it might just be the product of the ambiguous atmosphere at that time, without too much emotion. He even thought that if Adrian Xie just K!ssed him in such an unclear way and continued to be ambiguous with him, he would be willing.

But when the K!ss really happened, the heartbeat at that moment couldn't be faked, and he was really happy for a long time.

Adrian Xie didn't react after listening to it. It wasn't that he didn't hear clearly what Ethan He said, but the moment he saw the wound on the corner of his mouth, he no longer cared about the content of the words.

With a calm and handsome face, he pulled Ethan He, who was still waiting for his verdict, and stuffed him into the car without saying a word.

"where to?"

"Hospital."

"No need, just drop me off downstairs in the dormitory and---"

Adrian Xie turned his head and looked at him expressionlessly.

Hospital.

"Did you really hear what I said?"

Ethan He held a ball of cotton soaked in medicine in his mouth and spoke in a muffled voice. He looked at the man sitting opposite him waiting for him to apply the medicine in confusion.

"Be careful when you go back, and try not to use your left half of your teeth when eating for the next few days..."

"Yeah." He responded sullenly again.

"How long will it take to get better?" Adrian Xie, who had been silent, suddenly spoke out unexpectedly.

The nurse turned to look at him and answered his question as if nothing had happened. "It's just a minor injury, not that serious." She cleaned up the table quickly and came over to look at Ethan He. "It's not disfigured..."

Ethan He got back into the car. It was three minutes to eleven and he had already passed the school gate.

The wall behind the boys' dormitory was a bit shorter. Blake Wu had climbed over it when he went out to play games all night, and came back proudly sharing his experience with them.

It should be possible, Ethan He secretly estimated the height, and didn't realize that Adrian Xie had no intention of sending him back to school.

Ethan He looked closely at both sides of the road and found that it led to Adrian Xie's apartment in the city center.

"Adrian Xie?" he called out to the person.

"Um."

"you---"

"What, why do I want to bring you back, or why don't I break up with you?"

"Ethan He, what on earth are you thinking about?"

Adrian Xie leaned against the car, folded his arms and looked at him coldly. He spoke one sentence after another, catching Ethan He off guard and he stood there in a daze.

"You, you won't break up with me?"

Ethan He's mind is really stuck. Does he not need to climb over the wall?

Also... no need to break up?

Adrian Xie opened the car door with a cold face.

He actually had no recollection of the day Ethan He mentioned. He didn't remember whether he had seen a person named Ethan He that day, what porcelain he had baked that day, or even whether he had been to that building that day.

To him, it was just a small episode in his life and it didn't matter.

But for Ethan He, it was the beginning of everything.

He said it was love at first sight.

Adrian Xie smiled. He was very familiar with this word.

But strangely, during the time he was dating Ethan He, he rarely felt empty and seldom received invitations from friends.

Birds of a feather flock together. The friends around me all know each other's personalities, and none of them are good people if they can hang out together.

For them, hooking up/having S3x is more common than eating and drinking. If they like each other, they go to bed. If they get tired of each other, they break up. In this world of pleasure, wine, meat and women, they don't know how to write the word "sincerity".

It's normal.

Wei Ru has called her son less often recently because there is a new member in the family, a blue cat named Lantu.

Ethan He picked up the little guy downstairs in his community. When he found it, the back of its left leg was already lame and there were signs of being run over by wheels.

Ethan He once mentioned this to Adrian Xie inadvertently, and he turned around and asked Xie Zhuoyu, who said that guy liked cats and dogs the most. He already had a Shiba Inu at home, and he kept asking for a cat.

Ms. Wei disliked the smell of cat feces and refused to agree.

I don’t know how Xie Zhuoyu was so clingy, but he actually coaxed her into giving in.

His family knew that he didn't like furry creatures, so they never let cats or dogs near his room.

His friends know his S3xual orientation, so they never invite him to parties with many girls.

Similarly, did they also notice the difference in their attitude towards Ethan He, which is why they didn't joke around like they did in the past?

Adrian Xie has never thought about breaking up with Ethan He, at least not now, and nothing else matters to him.

Adrian Xie inevitably thought of tonight.

He did not go to the car, but waited for someone at the corner, but he could not explain why.

Adrian Xie couldn't do anything like peeking, so he just stood there and waited. He couldn't see when Ye Ziqi made his move, but he could hear their conversation clearly.

But that didn't matter. Adrian Xie even only noticed the bloody corner of Ethan He's mouth.

He looked into Ethan He's eyes.

"No."

The perfume Adrian Xie often used had cedar in it, which should be the base note. It had mostly dissipated, but it was still cool and charming.

The small space was filled with this smell. It was clearly a refreshing aroma, but it sounded like it was mixed with alcohol, making Ethan He dizzy and his heart beating like a drum.