Sissy (Niang Niang Qiang) - Chap 8
Chapter 8
Shao Qun touched Li Chengxiu’s purple-blue waist, causing him to shrink in pain.
Shao Qun felt his ribs up all the way down to his waist. After confirming it several times, he finally said, “It’s alright, no bones are broken. Don’t cry.”
Li Chengxiu hugged his stomach, avoiding his touch.
Shao Qun patted him on the back: “Don’t be such a scaredy cat. Why are you still crying? Get up and I’ll take you home.”
Li Chengxiu finally regained some energy when he heard that he was finally going home. He wiped his face with his hands and struggled to get up from the sofa. Unexpectedly, as he lifted himself up, his stomach turned inside and out, and he vomited with a loud “blerg”.
Although Shao Qun jumped away quickly, a big chunk of vomit still splashed onto his trousers. His face went dark.
Li Chengxiu vomited again, and then his limbs became weak. He couldn’t exert anymore strength – all he could do now was lie on the sofa and pant heavily.
He felt like he was dying. He couldn’t move, his whole body hurt, and he was unbearably stinky. What if he died like that? If he was going to die, at least he wanted to be clean.
He regretted that he was so greedy earlier and accepted that money from Li Wenxun. Making money should be a result of hard labor – he shouldn’t covet a pie in the sky. This was his retribution for taking the money that did not belong to him.
He hated Shao Qun and the other boys, yet he also hated himself for being so useless. He deserved to die here.
Suddenly he felt weightless. He opened his eyes and saw Shao Qun’s beautiful sharp chin.
Shao Qun had picked him up and taken him to the bathroom.
He put him in front of the sink, turned on the faucet, and pressed his head: “Rinse your mouth.”
Li Chengxiu spat out the nasty stuff he still had in his mouth, put his whole face under the faucet, and rinsed his mouth like crazy.
Shao Qun took some water and poured it over Li Chengxiu’s head. After splashing around for a while, Li Chengxiu’s appearance only got messier.
Finally, Shao Qun just pulled him away and helped him out of the bathroom.
Li Chengxiu covered his stomach and muttered softly, “I want to… go home, go home.”
Shao Qun stuffed him into the car and drove to the nearest hotel.
Li Chengxiu was so confused that he couldn’t say a complete sentence. He had no idea where he was, when Shao Qun took him inside some hotel room.
He immediately threw Li Chengxiu into the bathtub, turned on the hot water and poured it all over the boy.
Both of them smelled of alcohol and vomit, not to mention that Li Chengxiu also smelled of smoke. Seeing the hot water flow all over him, Shao Qun let out a long sigh.
He was so unlucky today. In the end, he was left alone with this drunk stinky sissy boy. He had never been so embarrassed in his life.
He took off his clothes and rushed to get under the water. He cleaned his entire body before squatting down to take off Li Chengxiu’s clothes.
Li Chengxiu was very comfortable under the hot water, and was a little drowsy. But when Shao Qun started moving around, he immediately woke up, half-opening his eyes. With a dull expression he watched Shao Qun take off his clothes.
When Shao Qun was undressing Li Chengxiu, he struggled for a while, as for some reason he felt that he should not be doing this.
If it was Big Li or A-wen in front of him, etc. he would not give it another thought. What hasn’t he seen there anyway?
But Li Chengxiu was somehow different. Shao Qun couldn’t treat him just like an ordinary same-sex person. For some reason he felt that taking off his clothes was just like taking off a girl’s clothes. There was a secret shame in his heart, but at the same time there was some unspeakable expectation. Shao Qun’s hands were even shaking a little.
Li Chengxiu’s skin was very pale, even morbidly pale. He was also extremely thin. As he was lying on his back, his ribs were clearly visible. The waist was so tiny that it seemed it would break just at the touch of a hand. His body hair was very sparse and soft. The lower part of his body was also exposed to the view, and Shao Qun could see his pink penis limply hanging between his legs, looking shy and pitiful.
Shao Qun remembered a porn movie he had just watched a couple of days ago. The Japanese woman in it also had this kind of pale, translucent skin, slender thighs, and a slim waist. The image in front of him seemed to overlap with the movie. As if in a trance, he suddenly had a fantasy about the naked body lying ín front of him – in his mind Li Chengxiu was the one spreading his thighs and gasping for breath.
Years later, Shao Qun could still recall that unfamiliar impulse he felt at that time. It was driven by teenage ignorance about such matters and natural curiosity about sex. It was the first time in his life that he discovered an indescribable reverie of shame he could feel about other people’s bodies. Although in retrospect he found it kind of funny, at that time it was like a heavy blow for him. After all, he was looking at a male body, so he pinched his own thigh to snap out of it.
He felt that his thoughts were very wrong. How could he be thinking about this sissy whom he actually disliked so much?
Irritated, he got up and used the shower head to wash Li Chengxiu.
He finished up as quickly as possible, then wrapped Li Chengxiu into a sheet and threw him on the bed. Afterwards he left, feeling like he was running away from something.
Li Chengxiu slept until noon the next day. When he woke up, he had a splitting headache. He half-squinted his eyes and looked at the snow-white sheets. For a long time, he didn’t understand where he was and whether he was already awake or still dreaming.
He slowly recalled what happened last night. He put his hand on his stomach and found that he was still in severe pain.
After lying in bed for a long time, he slowly came to his senses. He looked up and saw the clock hanging on the wall. Suddenly, he was so frightened that he quickly straightened out and jumped up.
Only then did he realize that he hadn’t gone home overnight, and he hadn’t gone to school today.
He had never stayed outside for the whole night before. And he had never skipped school for no reason. Today, he had done both. And now, there was no one around him, so all he could do was sit alone on this big bed, abandoned and at a loss.
When he lifted the sheet, he realized that he was naked. He couldn’t help blushing when he thought that it was Shao Qun who had undressed him and given him a bath last night.
He got out of bed and looked around. It turned out that Shao Qun had left clean clothes for him. It made Li Chengxiu feel a little uncomfortable.
When he was putting on the clothes, the phone in the room suddenly rang, startling him.
“……Hello?”
“Hello, hello! Do you want to check out before twelve o’clock?”
“What?”
“If you can’t check out before twelve o’clock, you will be charged another half-a-day fee for the room.”
“Ah, I’m checking out, I’m checking out!”
Li Chengxiu put himself in order, and then looked at the messy room around him. It made him feel guilty.
He had never stayed in a hotel before and didn’t know the rules, so he quickly rolled up the dirty clothes on the floor and put them in bags, then made the bed, folded the quilt neatly, and finally cleaned everything up in the bathroom.
Only then did he cautiously leave.
The maid who was doing room service told him to go downstairs to the front desk to check out, so he went, trembling on his way.
He didn’t have a penny on him, and he didn’t know how much it would cost to stay in such a high-end hotel for one night. In case he couldn’t afford it…
Unexpectedly, instead of asking him to pay, the clerk gave him more than 200 RMB, saying it was his deposit.
Li Chengxiu took the money and left in a daze.
He struggled a lot about whether to go to school or go home first. Finally he decided to go home.
He didn’t go to work yesterday, so he had to go back and make a phone call to explain his absence to his relatives. And since he didn’t go back last night, he wasn’t sure if his mother had eaten.
He remembered that his school bag was still in Shao Qun’s car, so he could only use the money the hotel gave him to take the bus home.
As soon as he returned, he made a phone call from the telephone booth to his boss in the restaurant. He apologized and explained for a long time, as well as promised to show up this evening. Only then did he drag his tired body home.
When he entered the room, a disgusting stench of alcohol hit his nostrils. Fortunately, his stomach was empty, otherwise he’d have to vomit again. The food he had prepared for his mother last morning didn’t seem to be touched. Since it was summer and it was left out for the whole night, it was stinking.
Loud snoring came from the back room, and he went in to take a look. His mother was asleep. It seemed that she hadn’t even noticed that he didn’t come back last night.
He went over and tried to wake her up: “Mom, mom, get up and eat some food!”
“Mom, get up and eat something!”
He called her for a long time, but his mother just mumbled in response, turned over and almost hit him with her hand. Li Chengxiu jumped back in fright, looked at his mother’s back and couldn’t help but sigh.
He was so hungry that he picked at some of the spoiled food on the table. Then he took off the new clothes and soaked them in water. He changed into his own clothes, and then headed to school.
He arrived at school just in time for the afternoon sessions. He first went to the office building to inform the teachers about him missing half a day. He said that he wasn’t feeling well in the morning. The teacher looked at his swollen face and bloodshot eyes, sighed, and let him go back to class.
He was restless the whole afternoon, because all his classmates were looking at him strangely. Usually he was invisible, and nobody even looked at him. But today their undisguised attention made him feel very uncomfortable.
During recess, he couldn’t take it anymore and ran to the toilet. He looked into the bathroom mirror and was shocked. The right side of his face was so swollen that his eyes turned into slits, and he could barely open them. It also hurt a lot when he touched his face.
There was also a large bruise on his stomach, and every breath was accompanied by pain, which made him miserable.
He splashed cold water onto his face a few times, and the burning pain could be shortly relieved by the coolness.
Just as he was bending over to splash water onto his face, somebody hit him hard on the lower back. He reacted in time by grabbing the edge of the washbasin, so even though he slipped, he didn’t fall onto the dirty floor of the toilet.
He turned his head and saw a boy from another class looking at him with a smile.
Li Chengxiu regained his balance, bowed his head and was about to leave when the boy blocked his path and asked, “Hey, where did Shao Qun and the others take you out yesterday? Did you stay out the whole night?”
Li Chengxiu raised his head. With a slight panic in his eyes, he made himself small and tried to move towards the door.
“Come on, tell me! I can see that only half of your face is swollen. Why is that? You went out with Shao Qun, and you came back alive today. It’s not an easy feat. Did you guys go out to play?”
“No…No playing…”
“If not playing, what did you do?”
Li Chengxiu stayed silent.
How dare he tell them that Shao Qun took him to a nightclub? If the teacher finds out, he will probably be expelled from school.
The boy continued pushing him: “Speak.”
Li Chengxiu stumbled and stood leaning against the wall, feeling that his stomach hurt so badly that he almost couldn’t straighten out his waist.
There were several people surrounding him now. There were also a bunch of onlookers next to the door. Little by little, he felt like more and more people tightly encircled him. He prayed for the bell to ring soon.
A sudden cry came from the direction of the door, accompanied by the sound of something falling to the ground. The crowd at the door dispersed, and the light pierced through – a tall and slim figure enveloped by the sun suddenly stood in front of Li Chengxiu.
He raised his head slightly, feeling that the image was very familiar. On the sunny rooftop that day, the same young boy with a handsome face and gorgeous black hair looked at him condescendingly.
Shao Qun rushed in and kicked the boy standing behind Li Chengxiu to the ground. Several people around him retreated in fear. The narrow men’s bathroom was in chaos for a while.
Shao Qun shouted: “Get out!”
The people inside and outside left in an instant. Only Li Chengxiu was still standing there, leaning against the wall, as he squinted and winced at Shao Qun.
Shao Qun grabbed Li Chengxiu’s chin and lifted his face up. He frowned at his swollen and deformed cheeks, and then poked them with his fingers.
Li Chengxiu hissed in pain and turned his face away.
Shao Qun took his hand away and raised his other hand in front of Li Chengxiu: “Your school bag.”
Li Chengxiu was stunned for a moment, but then he quickly took his bag.
At that moment, Shao Qun grabbed him: “Let’s go.”
Li Chengxiu pushed his arm away and refused to move: “Go… Go where? I…I…I won’t go.”
“I want to take you to the school nurse.”
“No. I have class.”
“Bullshit. Will you die if you don’t go to class?”
Shao Qun dragged Li Chengxiu out of the men’s toilet and took him downstairs under the gaze of the schoolmates that gathered around.
Li Chengxiu really didn’t want to go anywhere, especially with that guy. He didn’t want to have anything to do with Shao Qun’s gang anymore. His life was originally very peaceful, and he was slowly approaching his goals step by step. But these boys suddenly barged into his life and started messing with it. If it had any impact on his high school entrance examination, he would regret it for the rest of his life.
Shao Qun really took him into the school nurse’s office. The nurse happened to be absent at that moment, so Shao Qun took the matters into his own hands. He pushed Li Chengxiu into the chair and then opened the cabinet to look for something.
Li Chengxiu felt restless and tried to reason with him in a low voice: “The nurse isn’t here. Don’t just rummage through her things willy-nilly.”
Shao Qun frowned and ignored him. Finally he found a box of medicine and a bottle of Huo Luo oil[30].
He handed the medicine to Li Chengxiu: “It’s anti-inflammatory. Take two of those.”
Li Chengxiu read the instructions carefully, before taking out a water bottle from his schoolbag and swallowing the two anti-inflammatory pills.
Shao Qun opened the oil bottle, pointed to the bed and said to Li Chengxiu, “Lie down.”
Li Chengxiu held onto his school bag and looked at him blankly.
Shao Qun couldn’t stand this stupid look of his. Li Chengxiu was wasting his time! So he just dragged him up and pushed him onto the bed: “Lie down. I’ll apply the medicine for you.”
Confused, Li Chengxiu asked: “Wh…. why?”
Shao Qun raised his eyebrows: “Your stomach is purple. I need to put the medicine on it so it heals. What do you mean why?”
What Li Chengxiu actually meant to ask was: Why would you want to apply the medicine for me?
Shao Qun’s disgust and contempt for him was clearly visible. If it weren’t for him and his friends, Li Chengxiu wouldn’t have been beaten up for no reason. Why would he suddenly want to help him with his wounds? Did his conscience return after a long absence or what?
Li Chengxiu was unhappy in every possible way, but his fear of Shao Qun was engraved deeply in his bones. So he had no choice but to lie down obediently and stretch himself out.
Shao Qun lifted his clothes and looked at the large bruise on the left side of his waist and abdomen. It looked even more ghastly on Li Chengxiu’s snow-white skin. Shao Qun pursed his lips and said, “It hurts to even look at it.”
Li Chengxiu’s eyelashes trembled slightly and timidly looked at Shao Qun.
Shao Qun poured some oil into his hands, wiped it all on Li Chengxiu’s stomach, and said, “I’ll rub it in for you. If it hurts a bit, just bear with it.”
Li Chengxiu cried out, and his whole body curled up: “It hurts. Don’t press.”
“No, if I don’t apply pressure properly, it will heal too slowly. It’s better to bear with a little pain now than to prolong it.”
“Don’t… don’t press. It hurts.”
Shao Qun pulled Li Chengxiu’s arms and legs apart: “Don’t move. Just be patient.”
Li Chengxiu refused to cooperate. He kicked around but for some reason this time it hurt him more than before. He wasn’t sure whether his kick was too heavy or Shao Qun’s hand was too strong.
Shao Qun exclaimed angrily: “Why the hell are you so fussy? Will you die from a little pain? Will it kill you to endure it?”
With tears in the corners of his eyes, Li Chengxiu whimpered and cried out, “Bite me.”
Shao Qun was stunned by this sudden rudeness.
He looked at the oil on his hands, noticed the pungent smell in the air, and suddenly realized what was happening.
What was he even thinking? When he heard that sissy didn’t come to school in the morning, he felt uneasy. As soon as Li Chengxiu finally appeared, he rushed to see him, and even insisted on giving him a massage.
Why was he acting like such an idiot?
Shao Qun angrily threw the bottle at Li Chengxiu and cursed: “Fuck you.” Then he angrily walked out.
Li Chengxiu suddenly remembered something and shouted after him, “Wait.”
Shao Qun froze and turned around with unconcealed anticipation in his eyes.
Li Chengxiu quickly took out the 300 RMB from his school bag and then got the 200 RMB he received from the hotel in the morning out of his pocket. He then walked up to Shao Qun and handed it to him: “I don’t want your money.”
Shao Qun’s face darkened immediately. And it wasn’t just metaphorical – it was such a visible physical change that Li Chengxiu got scared.
Shao Qun slapped the bills out of Li Chengxiu’s hand and said viciously, “Keep it for your medical expenses.”
The Huo Luo Oil (word for word translation “active/activated oil”)
