Walking through Fire for You 《他从火光中走来》by Er Dong Tu Zi 《耳东兔子》~ Chapter 5

Lin Qi has reservation at the restaurant near the crossroad. Four of them get inside. The waiter greets them. Lin Qi passes the cake to the waiter. “You could serve the cake, after the dinner.” Then he drags Nan Chu inside the private room.

Nan Chu shakes his hand off and ask: “Your birthday?”

They both just got to know each other two years ago, they never talk about each other birthday.

They enter the private room. He helps Nan Chu to pull the chair and let her sit down. He acts like his Ge.

After Nan Chu sits down, Lin Qi takes the cup from her front and serves her a glass of water. He says: “Don’t be to pressured. I don’t hope that you will give me a present. Just eat together with us, think of this as my present.”

“Drink this, there’s no poison on it.”

Nan Chu takes it and listens to his next sentences: “Do you know that my Ge is too hard to invite. We rarely see each other. Guess what is his job?”

Nan Chu holds the glass and shakes her head.

“He is a firefighter.” Lin Qi says proudly: “What is it? Are you surprised to hear it!”

“…”

Nan Chu says inside her heart. This man should be crazy.

The time they are talking, two people get in.

They are too slow like two snails.

Lin Qi turns his head and says: “Ge, sit here.”

Lin Lu Xiao comes over and sits down.

Xia Wan, who is behind Lin Lu Xiao, says aggrievedly: “Lin Qi, why aren’t you calling me too?”

Lin Sha Bai Tian (Lin Sweet, naive young man): “You are not my Ge.”

Xia Wan: “……”

Nan Chu cannot help but to feel pity toward Xia Wan for a second.

These brothers have a really low EQ.

After Lin Lu Xiao sits down, Lin Qi turns his head and asks Nan Chu. “What did I talk before?”

“You said that your Ge is a firefighter and you asked whether I was surprised with it.”

Nan Chu glances at Lin Lu Xiao and smiles.

“…..”

Lin Qi nods: “Right, right right! Since I was young, I dreamt to be a firefighter.”

Nan Chu: “I remember that you used to say to the reporter that you dream to be a violinist.”

Lin Qi says: “I even have ever said to the reporter that I wish to be a scientist. How could you believe it?”

Then he just realizes that something is wrong, he slaps his thigh and says: “Ay, are you flipping over my interview? Are you secretly in love with me?”

Nan Chu rolls her eyes.

Lin Qi just says: “Okay, I’ll stop. Later on if we have a scandal, it’ll be so troublesome.”

Lin Qi is quite popular, he loves to joke around. He is young and is cute. He has a slender and long hands. He has a lot of fans. Not a lot of people know him but he has die-hard fans.

The fans might attack Nan Chu if a scandal between them goes out.

Lin Qi looks at Lin Lu Xiao and says regretfully: “I don’t have a great body and health like my Ge. I couldn’t get into the military school. I am not like my Ge. In the past when he was at the military school, everyone called him as “Iron wolf”, he has a great muscle.”

His words make Lin Lu Xiao glares at him.

Lin Sha Bai Tian just proposes an idea: “Ge, if not just lift up your shirt and show your muscle?”

“……”

Nan Chu looks at Lin Qi.

You are too great.

Xia Wan’s ears turn red. “Lin Qi, how could you make your Ge as center of attention?”

Lin Qi: “It’s not a big deal. Nowadays a lot of men in the entertainment circle loves to show off their muscles in the instagram. They are editing and photoshopping it. Last time when I was in Milan with Nan Chu, we bumped into an American, he was discussing his muscle and showing it of. I was so disgusted for half month. For muscle, there’s no one as great as my Ge.”

Nan Chu remembers that moment. Lin Qi was shocked that time.

Lin Qi just extends his hand to lift up Lin Lu Xiao’s shirt, Lin Lu Xiao just holds his wrist and says seriously: “Stop your craziness.”

Lin Lu Xiao usually is very idle, he likes to joke indeed. But when he is serious, he doesn’t show any expression. Lin Qi doesn’t dare to anything. He just feels embarrassed and shifts the conversation.

The waiter starts to serve the food.

The atmosphere turns quieter. Lin Qi is a bit afraid of Lin Lu Xiao. Because of Lin Lu Xiao’s warning, he doesn’t dare to do anything too much. He just sticks his tongue out toward Nan Chu and just sits down on the side and feels wronged.

Xia Wan glances at Lin Lu Xiao.

He just eats calmly.

Xia Wan calls after him. “Lin Lu Xiao.”

Lin Lu Xiao doesn’t even lift his head: “Em?”

Xia Wan hesitates for a while and says: “Recently I encounter a trouble.”

Lin Lu Xiao: “Em.”

Xia Wan keeps on stirring his rice with chopsticks.

Nan Chu looks at Lin Lu Xiao and feels somewhat thankful that his IQ is not yet matured.

Xia Wan probes out cautiously: “It’s my patient. This period of time he keeps on sending me flowers. He makes everyone thinks that I have a boyfriend. I feels so embarrassed right now. Tell me what should I do?”

Lin Qi slaps the table and laughs loudly: “You ask my Ge? What do you mean?”

Nan Chu looks at Lin Qi, could it be this little guy suddenly has enlightenment?

Xia Wan thinks that she is exposed too soon. She is panicking. “I don’t mean that way…. I just want to ask out to ask you guys. Nan Chu is here too right? She is too pretty. She should encounter this matter for many times. Don’t think too much!”

Lin Qi: “I don’t think too much. My Ge? How could he solve this! As for Nan Chu, you are thinking too much, no one dares to pursue her in the entertainment circle.”

Nan Chu says inside her heart: “Stupid c*nt.”

Xia Wan releases her breath and turns her head to look at Lin Lu Xiao. He is expressionless and just enjoys his food.

Xia Wan hits the table: “Ay, couldn’t you say something? For this matter, how should I handle it!”

Then she stresses out again: “Someone is pursuing me! Everyday he sends me flower to the office! He makes everyone thinks that I have boyfriend! What should I do?”

Nan Chu feels that if Lin Lu Xiao keeps on acting indifferent, the next thing Xia Wan say would be someone is raping her.

Lin Lu Xiao eats quickly. Then he wipes his mouth with tissue.

“it’s great.”

Xia Wan looks at him, she finds this is too unbelievable. “What?”

Lin Lu Xiao throws away the tissue and says. “Anyway you have no boyfriend.”

Xia Wan beats the bowl twice with her chopsticks: “You also don’t have girlfriend right?!”

Lin Lu Xiao is silent.

Nan Chu starts to intervene: “Lin Dui Zhang hasn’t finished this personal problem ah?”

Xia Wan says: “Not yet ah, with this kind of behavior, who would marry with him!”

Nan Chu looks at Xia Wan’s smile and says slowly: “I feel that there are lots of women want to marry him.”

Xia Wan suddenly stops smiling, she looks at her alarmingly.

Lin Lu Xiao stands up.

Lin Qi calls after him. “Ge, where are you going?”

“I want to smoke.”

He just says and just walks away.

Lin Lu Xiao goes out and there are only three people in the room. After a while, Nan Chu stands up again.

Xia Wan looks at her. “Where are you going?”

This is the difference between women and men. Women are having more sense of crisis than men.

Nan Chu smiles and invites her: “Let’s go to the restroom together?”

Xia Wan stands up gracefully: “Let’s go. I drank too much.”

They both go out. Lin Qi looks at two of them and grumbles: “Crazy, they just go to the restroom, why should they go together?”

……..

It’s been some time since Nan Chu went together to the restroom together like this.

The time they reach the doorway, they see Lin Lu Xiao is smoking there. His back is straight. He always stands so straight every time.

Xia Wan watches Nan Chu. She is a sensitive one. Since she was young, she always be obedient and clever. She was sent to the university for military doctor. Her parents were salaried class. For her, they worked so hard. They even used their connection to let her work in the current hospital.

Xia Wan knows clearly that everything she has is from her and her parents’ hard work.

Since she was young, she always be so strict toward herself. She feels that she shouldn’t step on the wrong path. Including for the love too. She also knows what she needs clearly. She always understands everything clearly.

Her relationship with Lin Lu Xiao will happen sooner later.

She believes.

In this world, there’s no one more suitable to be with Lin Lu Xiao than her.

Of course this include Nan Chu. She is not suitable for him.

They both stand side by side in front of the bathroom sink. Xia Wan acts calm and asks: “Are you close and familiar with the nun of Qing Chan temple?”

Nan Chu turns on a faucet, “I heard her about to practice Zen.”

“Indeed it’s great to practice Zen.” Xia Wan says.

Nan Chu doesn’t say anything, she is waiting for Xia Wan’s next words.

“The nun says that there’s a nobility in my life, he is a soldier.”

She starts to talk nonsense.

The nun never says those things.

But Nan Chu doesn’t expose her lie, she just switches off the water tap and takes a tissue to wipe her hands.

Xia Wan looks at her: “I heard that you are quite gossipy.”

Nan Chu glances at her and leans on the table nearby. She takes out a lighter and a box of cigarettes: “For example—-“

Xia Wan is a bit stupefied, she suddenly feels that this young woman isn’t easy to deal with.

“A lot of entertainment magazine expose that your father is from organized crime syndicate.”

Nan Chu just smokes and narrows her eyes. She is calm and indifferent: “Continue—“

Xia Wan feels terrified.

“They say that you have a lot of boyfriends.”

Nan Chu snorts like she is mocking something.

The restroom is full of smoke because of Nan Chu. From the white smoke, Xia Wan suddenly feels that Nan Chu somehow looks like an evil spirit.

From the mirror, these two women are standing opposite like they are confronting each other.

Xia Wan gets to the point: “Lin Lu Xiao is handsome, he is brave. Indeed he could attract young woman. It’s impossible between you guys. So you shouldn’t have any kind of thought about him.”

Nan Chu puts down the cigarette and says: “What if I have one already? Em?”

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