The Crematorium’s Scum Gong Gets to Clock Off After Being Replaced 44

Chapter 44: Roommate 04

Bzz bzz.

After dealing with the people checking the dorm, Chen Beichuan’s phone received a few new messages without a moment’s rest.

It wasn’t his roommate, who had run off to who knows where, but his younger sister, Chen Nanyuan, a freshman who had just enrolled at A University this year.

The siblings had never been close since they were young. It was mainly Chen Beichuan who unilaterally ignored people, and Chen Nanyuan also preferred to cling to her parents, leaving her brother in peace.

Now that their parents were in their hometown in another province, and the two were studying at the same university, it was only right for Chen Beichuan to take care of his younger sister, who was new to the place.

Chen Beichuan thought for a moment, put the socks back in their original place, and covered them with Gu Xiu’s pillow.

“Brother!” The 18-year-old girl’s voice was high and full of energy. “I heard that a new Sichuan-style hot pot restaurant has opened near the east gate. Business is so good that there’s a queue until midnight… It shouldn’t be that popular today, right? I’ve been in class all day and I’m starving. Do you want to go for a late-night snack?”

Chen Beichuan was doing two things at once. He was checking his closet to see if anything else was missing while listening to the voice message from Chen Nanyuan.

Although his memory was extraordinary, his daily wear was just a few sets of clothes. He would wash them when they were dirty and wear them again after they were dry from the balcony. He was quite a straight man. He himself was unfamiliar with most of his closet, so he couldn’t tell if any other clothes had been stolen.

He closed the closet door. The lingering anger from being a river snail girl in the dorm had not yet dissipated. He didn’t want to continue writing code tonight. He pressed the voice message button and replied to his sister, “Fine, send me the address.”

The efficient siblings met at the entrance of the restaurant.

Chen Nanyuan had cleverly found a classmate who was nearby to get a number for them. The two met and sat down under the envious gazes of the people in the queue.

Of course, more than half of the gazes that were focused on them were of amazement.

The siblings were exceptionally good-looking. On the noisy and chaotic street at night, they were like magnetic poles with their own light source, with a magic that attracted gazes.

But Chen Beichuan and his sweet-looking sister had completely different temperaments. The disappointed men and women could only sigh in their hearts. A handsome guy was next to a beautiful girl, and a beautiful girl was next to a handsome guy. The famous flowers and grass were all taken…

During the long queue, their restless attention shifted to another table diagonally opposite.

There were eight people squeezed together there, but two boys stood out among the untidy college students. Although they were also dressed very casually, one wearing black-framed glasses that sealed his looks, and the other wearing a T-shirt and shorts, their extraordinary looks were still obvious.

The angle was just right. Chen Beichuan sat down on a red plastic stool, and with a casual glance, his gaze fell on his missing roommate.

Next to his roommate was the boy with glasses he had seen in the evening, Ji Ning from the art academy.

“Brother,” Chen Nanyuan called her brother back to his senses. “What do you want to eat? Can you eat spicy food?”

Chen Beichuan was concise. “Yes.”

Chen Nanyuan was flipping through the menu while talking nonsense, “Oh, oh, oh, your butt shouldn’t have anything to pay attention to, right?”

Chen Beichuan’s eyes darkened, and he warned his sister to speak properly with his icy gray eyes.

Chen Nanyuan grinned. “You’ve been in college for a year and you’re a graduate student for a year, and you still haven’t found a girlfriend. Could it be that you don’t like girls at all?”

Chen Beichuan’s daily life, besides his basic studies, was all sorts of competitions. His hobbies were writing code and studying mathematics. Although he lived in the internet-savvy year of 2024, all the internet memes slipped past him without leaving a trace.

If he often surfed the internet, he could have replied with a sentence: A celibate king all the way to a master’s and a doctorate.

Instead of casually asking, “Why?” when he didn’t know his sister’s niche hobbies.

Chen Nanyuan was immediately energized and rattled on like a bean pouring out, “Hey, you don’t know. There are only ten boys in our major. It’s ridiculous! Two are scum sea kings, and out of the remaining eight, at least six are gay!”

Chen Nanyuan was also an art student. Speaking of which, she was Ji Ning’s direct junior.

“How do you know their sexual orientation?” Chen Beichuan was not merciful to his own sister and said coldly, “They wouldn’t tell you. You’re a big mouth.”

Chen Nanyuan closed her mouth and said resentfully, “You don’t know… but I can tell! Those books of mine… no, extracurricular books, I didn’t read them for nothing! Don’t look at my young age. I already have ten years of experience in shipping CPs…”

Chen Beichuan turned a deaf ear and ate his own meat.

“Ahhhhhh, you’re too much!” Seeing that a plate of good snowflake meat had all gone into her brother’s gluttonous mouth, Chen Nanyuan screamed. She took the opportunity to scoop up some pitiful meat scraps. When she was free, she couldn’t help but continue the topic from before. “Hey, let me tell you, it’s easy to tell a gay man in real life. Let me teach you a few secrets.”

“The tone of their voice can be faked, and as for their personality… you definitely can’t feel it. Just look at this one. It’s the most obvious. They especially like white socks. Like those sports students who wear white long socks, almost no little zero can resist.”

Socks.

The chopsticks that Chen Beichuan had brought to his mouth suddenly stopped, and the meat slice he had picked up also fell back into his bowl.

After a moment, he put down his empty chopsticks and repeated with a frown, “…Socks?”

“That’s right. Not only do they wear them themselves, but they also like handsome guys’ socks, hahahaha.”

Although the pair he had stolen was striped socks, not white socks, it was possible that he had come back too timely, and his suspected perverted gay roommate had given up halfway.

Thinking of this, Chen Beichuan unceremoniously pushed away his sister, who was blocking his view, and looked at the other table behind her.

Especially Gu Xiu.

His gaze went down a few inches, waiting for Gu Xiu’s foot to move out from under the table.

“…Brother!” Chen Nanyuan noticed her brother’s gaze and her face turned pale. “What are you looking at!?”

A man’s socks.

Chen Beichuan had already confirmed it. Gu Xiu was quite informal, wearing socks with sports slippers. He could see it clearly.

Black socks, which did not match the gay characteristics Chen Nanyuan had claimed.

“Brother?? Who are you looking at? Holy shit…” Chen Nanyuan quickly lowered her voice. “That little brother is quite handsome… Brother, do you like that type?”

Chen Beichuan’s face was unchanged even though he had been caught. He faintly withdrew his gaze and looked at his surprised sister with a cold gaze, saying emotionlessly, “I saw that he had stepped on something dirty.”

For the sake of his sister still eating, he didn’t say it too harshly, for example, stepping on dog poop.

Chen Nanyuan was silent for a few seconds, then she rolled her eyes. “Although they all say that falling in love with a straight man is a gay man’s destiny… but even among straight men, you’re the kind of straight man that gay men hate the most.”

Chen Beichuan lowered his head and ate seriously. After he had finished chewing the food in his mouth, he replied without raising his head, “What else?”

Chen Nanyuan: “…” Girls hate it too!!

Suddenly, Gu Xiu’s voice rose, and a clear sound was carried over by the night wind. “I’m not gay, and neither is Ji Ning. Don’t talk nonsense.”

Chen Nanyuan just happened to use the ready-made example to educate her brother, “Usually, only a real gay will deny it so fiercely. Just like if you say a smart person is stupid, they might just laugh it off. But if you say a stupid person is stupid, they’ll get angry～”

Chen Beichuan was silent for a while, his lowered eyes making it impossible to tell what he was thinking. He suddenly asked, “Then are you stupid?”

Chen Nanyuan: “…”

The siblings parted on bad terms.

But in Chen Beichuan’s eyes, this was their normal state of getting along, and it was about right.

It was just that the matter of having possibly discovered his roommate’s secret fetish made him unable to not care.

As a roommate, living under the same roof, he was the first victim and prey, the moon that was closest to the water. He couldn’t stay in the dormitory all the time. The shut-in Gu Xiu had an exceptionally rich “time for crime.”

If he were to directly confront Gu Xiu with the socks under his pillow, the latter would definitely deny it and might even turn the tables on him, saying that he was framing him just to kick him out of the dormitory.

He had to be caught red-handed, Chen Beichuan thought. This was also his consistent rigorous academic spirit.

The next time Gu Xiu rummaged through his closet, he was clearly captured by the camera he had installed inside the closet.

His originally exquisite features were magnified and distorted by the fisheye lens, making him look sneaky. Seeing that he had gone to the library, Gu Xiu was so unrestrained, rummaging through his closet, picking and choosing.

This time, he took a luxury brand old-fashioned short-sleeved shirt, a very vulgar style, with the brand’s classic logo printed all over it. A new shirt with the tag still on, also not Chen Beichuan’s daily style. If he hadn’t made preparations in advance, he might never have found out.

Seeing this, Chen Beichuan was relieved.

This guy was indeed the same as in his impression, a vain, superficial, and ignorant good-for-nothing. All he stole were flashy new clothes. The socks were just an accident and had nothing to do with a gay man’s XP.

After ruling out the possibility that the other was a pervert, under the broken window effect, this person’s petty theft seemed not so unbearable.

But Chen Beichuan was a good student, but he was definitely not a good old man.

In the evening, he returned to the dormitory from the library and saw that the dormitory door was ajar. Gu Xiu’s phone was still on the table, and the plastic basin and towel were gone. He should have gone to take a shower.

Their two-person dormitory, no matter how luxurious, was still a dormitory. Like the other four-person rooms in this building, it did not have a private bathroom. There was one public bathroom and one public toilet on each floor.

Having confirmed this, Chen Beichuan immediately locked the door.

He would not expose his roommate’s despicable behavior for the time being, but it did not mean that he would endure it silently. On the contrary, it was a silent brewing and accumulation before the storm.

Not long after, the oblivious Gu Xiu returned to the dormitory.

The QR code system outside the dormitory door required a phone. Before going upstairs, Chen Beichuan had specifically looked. The dormitory aunt downstairs was temporarily out on business. Calling her to open the door also required a phone.

Heh.

Gu Xiu outside the door thought that the door had been closed by the wind and thought to himself that he was unlucky. He didn’t think of asking the dormitory aunt for help. The temperature was still nearly thirty degrees. Thinking that he was on the sixth floor of the male dormitory and there were usually no outsiders, he had gone to the public bathroom shirtless.

Now, of course, he had come back shirtless. Even if the dormitory aunt was old, it was still not very good.

He hesitated for a moment, raised his hand to knock on the door, and asked, “Chen Beichuan, are you back?”

Chen Beichuan did not answer.

On the table, Gu Xiu’s phone lit up.

Chen Beichuan went over to take a look. A new message, from the handsome little boy with glasses, Ji Ning. Gu Xiu’s note for him was his full name, which did not seem ambiguous.

However, the question was—【Are you done with your shower～】

And with a little tilde.

Chen Beichuan: “…”

Gu Xiu knocked on the door a few more times, and the metal door rang and shook.

“Good student, I know you’re in there,” Gu Xiu’s voice gradually became impatient. “Are you deliberately looking for trouble?”

Who was the one who stole things and deliberately looked for trouble first?

Chen Beichuan was even more angry.

And this person was not only flirting with boys, but he had also said to him, You’d definitely be handsome with glasses too?

Is he the same type as the skinny, timid, and weak Ji Ning?

Gu Xiu, who was unaware that the protagonist gong was even more of a steel-straight man than himself, was still angrily pounding on the door.

007’s ball of light was a ball of mental energy and could change into various forms. After squeezing through the crack of the door, it informed him that the protagonist gong was indeed in the dormitory and was deliberately not opening the door for him.

“Hey! Chen Beichuan!”

Gu Xiu shouted. If this person didn’t open the door for him, he would call everyone on the floor over and let them see the unknown dark side of this male god campus prince…!

Click.

The door opened unexpectedly.

Gu Xiu stumbled and almost fell in.

Chen Beichuan stood in the dormitory with a dark face, facing him.

Gu Xiu held the plastic basin in his arms and steadied himself.

Chen Beichuan took this time to observe him.

Gu Xiu had just taken a shower. The shower water must have been very hot, steaming his cool white skin into a crimson red, like a late cherry blossom blooming in the night. His entire upper body seemed to be glowing, and the shadows between his muscles were also faint and clear.

His black hair, which was hanging over his eyebrows, was wet and exuded a bit of steam. It actually made his eyes look very refreshing, with thin monolids and a red nose.

There was also a light brown mole next to his Adam’s apple, which Chen Beichuan had never noticed before.

Tonight, the just-showered, shirtless Gu Xiu was suddenly much more pleasing to the eye than usual.

“Hey, what do you mean by this?” Gu Xiu was unforgiving and held on to the matter of being locked out of the door, completely forgetting that he was the one who was at fault first.

Gu Xiu’s body was full of steam, with the sweet smell of shower gel, like some kind of food, for example, sweet and greasy sugar-roasted chestnuts.

Hot and steaming, it rushed at him.

Chen Beichuan opened his mouth, wanting to say something but held back. His mouth and nose were filled with that scent. He was dizzy for a moment, and as if possessed, he swallowed all his words along with the scent.