Only good-looking

  I looked up at Qin Xuan, still not speaking. I picked up the Niulanshan brand Erguotou and continued to pour some into Qin Xuan's mouth, then drank some of the Wangyue brand Erguotou myself.

  "I have a brother named Xu Chen," I said. "I always told people he was doing real estate, but actually it was my other brother, Yuan Yuan, who was doing that. Xu Chen and I started together in middle school. He would get into fights to protect us, even stabbing someone with a knife and getting sent to juvenile detention. After he got out, whenever we had good times, he wouldn't participate, but whenever we were in trouble, Xu Chen never hesitated, no matter what danger it was.

  "We offended some big shots once, and Xu Chen took out a knife and stabbed himself twice to scare them off. If not for him, we might all be in prison now. Xu Chen lived his whole life for others. He didn't finish middle school because he went to juvenile detention for us, and he didn't finish high school because he got stomach cancer and had to work hard to earn money for his sister's dowry.

  "He never had a proper girlfriend, and every time I saw him, he was wearing those tattered clothes. Now he's just gone, lying there forever, unable to laugh and joke with us again. Sometimes I think it's all just a dream or a TV show, and if I open my eyes, he'll come back and we can continue our lives together.

  "Our relationship was so good, beyond what you can imagine. Yuan Yuan earned some money from abroad and the first thing he did was buy Xu Chen's grave plot for himself. He said it was because he didn't want to be lonely after he died.

  "I'm sorry, I know you're a vegetable and can't understand me," I said, my voice choked with tears. "Yuan Yuan bought the grave plot next to Xu Chen's and slept there one night, hugging his tombstone."

  I took out my phone and found a photo, showing it to Qin Xuan on the screen. "See this? This is us brothers back in high school, singing at KTV. The one in the middle with the messy hair is Xu Chen. He even grabbed the mic and shouted 'friends forever' that day."

  I couldn't stop my tears from flowing as I wiped them away with my hand. "He said we'd be together for life, but he didn't keep his promise. Every time I think of him, I feel like I'm going to collapse."

  I picked up the Wangyue Erguotou and took a sip, then threw it aside and continued drinking from the Niulanshan bottle.

  "My life has been so legendary, with all these people and experiences," I said, tears streaming down my face. "If someone with good writing skills wrote a book about me, it would be a bestseller."

  As I looked at Qin Xuan's eyes, they also slowly became moist, and tears flowed out from the corners. I smiled and said, "You see, you still have feelings, you're not a vegetable, right? Even the coldest person would shed tears after experiencing what my brothers and I went through." I took another sip of Erguotou and said, "There are some more beers at home, I'll go get them." After that, I ran to the balcony and brought out a case of beer that was left over from before.

  "Come on, let's have a good drink today." I started drinking myself, and while drinking, I poured some into Qin Xuan's mouth.

  Slowly, a case of beer was emptied, and the white wine was gone too. I looked at Qin Xuan with some dizziness, stretching out my thumb to him "Good, good job. You're not even dizzy."

  After finishing, I reached into my clothes and took out the wasabi oil, pried open Qin Xuan's mouth, his head a bit dizzy, smiled at him "I see you're not making a sound." Then poured half a bottle of wasabi oil into Qin Xuan's mouth. Following that, I tossed the empty wasabi oil bottle to the side.

  Qin Xuan spat out the mustard oil and then started coughing. Tears gushed out of his eyes.

  I laughed and pointed at Qin Xuan, "You vegetable, if you don't speak up today, I'll feed you wasabi oil every day from now on." I chuckled and sat down to one side, seeing Qin Xuan's tears gushing out.

  I felt a bit happy, sat on one side, feeling dizzy. Lying on the warm floor that had been beaten by Nuan, I fell asleep.

  The next morning, quite early, I found someone kicking me.

  "I vaguely pushed and said 'good wife, sleep a bit more.' After saying that, I turned over and hugged someone, thinking it was Nuan. But feeling the flat chest, I knew something was off. Opening my eyes, I saw Qin Xuan's beard. I immediately sat up and rubbed my temples hard, suddenly remembering that yesterday I had tried to get Qin Xuan drunk, but ended up getting drunk myself."

  Qin Xuan rushed towards me and smiled "What's with such a big reaction?"

  I took a deep breath and said, "Why did you kick me so early? I'm still sleeping." After finishing speaking, I lay down again. Lying down, I felt something was off. Suddenly, I lifted my head and looked at Qin Xuan, stretching out my hand to ruffle his hair. "Big Brother-in-law, are you okay?"

  Qin Xuan slapped me on the head and said "Thanks for the vegetable" then slapped me again and said "And also chicken bones, Erguotou, and mustard oil."

  I'm so happy now "Damn it, you've finally returned to normal."

  Qin Xuan nodded "I'm hungry."

  "I'm hungry, I'll go downstairs to buy something to eat, there are plenty at the entrance of our community, I'll call Nuan Nuan."

  "No need to call, I talked to her when she came out to see you last night"

  "So you were fine last night?"

  Qin Xuan thought for a moment and smiled "What you said is quite right."

  "That's a must" I sighed "Big brother, if you weren't around, I'd probably be bullied to death by them."

  Qin Xuan patted me on the head and said "Alright, everything is over. I'll go out and give Zhang Yan and them a call to take a look."

  "Go ahead then. Buy more food on your way back."

  Qin Xuan nodded and after finishing speaking, Qin Xuan stood up and went out as soon as he opened the door.

  I stretched and looked at the white wine, beer, and mustard oil all over the floor. I smiled, got up, went to the room, and gently pushed open the door.

  Saw Nuan's big eyes wide open, shining brightly at me with a warm smile.

  I proudly patted my own chest.

  "Hubby" sat up excitedly and rushed over to me. I quickly hugged Nuan Nuan "Hurry, hurry, don't get frozen."

  "My brother is fine, my brother is fine."

  "I know."

  Warmly and happily kissed me hard "Husband you are so handsome."

  "Handsome is a must." I carried Nuan to the bed, reached out and scratched her little nose "How's that, won't you use my head as a football anymore?"

  "Husband, how did you manage to do it."

  "There's nothing Wang Yue can't accomplish."

  Anyway, husband, you're too handsome, I love you.

  "Cough cough, don't try too hard, it's almost enough."

  Warmly and fiercely kissed me on the mouth "Where's my brother?"

  I let him go out and buy breakfast, he also wants to call his friend.

  "You'd better go with him."

  "He's already so old and has been normal for a long time, how could he still be thinking like that."

  "It was fine last night, when I went out yesterday evening, I found you sleeping like a log, and he was drinking by himself over there."

  "And then?"

  She smiled and said, "I just chatted with him for a while, his eyes were red, I comforted him for half a day, seeing him calm down, I felt relieved, he returned to normal."

  I stretched and said "Alright, I'll go wake up Fatso Taotao."

  "What did you tell them to do?"

  "Let them have breakfast, and then let Qin Xuan, Hu Kou Dong, and Pang Zi Tao sleep in one room."

  "Ah?" Nuan's face was full of surprise "Sleep in the same room with those two?"

  "What's wrong with you? Can't sleep in our room or fight with me every day. I still want to touch your skin."

  "Bullshit."

  "Yeah, butt is also part of the process."

  "Scoundrel. Get out." Warmly smiling and chuckling, he punched me "What if they disagree or are not happy about it?"

  "Don't worry, I'm here." I looked at Nuan Nuan and said, "I'll make sure that Huo Dong himself asks his big brother to move in."

  "What are you kidding me?" Nuan's face was full of disbelief "How is that possible."

  "What if it's true?"

  Nuan Nuan felt a surge of pain and said, "You tell me, if it's true, what do you want to do?"

  I stared at Nuan Nuan and said "Then I want you to be strong."

  Nodding slightly "Alright, whatever."

  I smiled and said "Alright then, wait for it."

  He gave me a disdainful look and said "If you can't, I'll cut off your head and kick it around like a ball."

  "You really seem to like sports lately."

  "Mind your own business." Nuan said casually "Anyway, watch out for your head, you have to arrange things well for my brother."

  "I" simply said one word: "safe".

  Qin Xuan really bought back breakfast. I called out Bo Long and the others, a whole table of people, sitting in the outer living room.

  Qin Xuan looked at us and then sighed. "There were some misunderstandings with everyone before. If there's any grudge, I, Qin Xuan, apologize to everyone here."

  "There's nothing to apologize for, that's not even a thing." Hu Kou Dong smiled happily "Here I'm the one who calls the shots, I'm their big brother."

  Qin Xuan nodded "Don't be angry then."

  "Dong Ge thought for a moment, 'Xuan Ge, why did you break up with Gao Weiwei? What a great girl she is.'"

  Qin Xuan looked at Dong Ge and said, "What's good about her in your eyes?"

  "That's great."

  "That's it." Qin Xuan nodded. "You don't understand her either, she just looks good, that's all. I used to think so too. Two people together, what's the use of just looking good? Every day is either quarreling or fighting, and then I have to coax her with great effort. She has a bad temper, a spoiled princess attitude, it's really tiring. Even if she looks good, I couldn't take it anymore. To outsiders, we seem like a happy couple, but in reality, both of us are tired. We're always breaking up and getting back together, can't make up our minds, so this time, let's just have a painful breakup. That's it." Qin Xuan said with a helpless smile. "Who knew she'd be even more ruthless, actually wanting to commit suicide."