One Useless Rebirth

He Bai hang up the call with confusion. Before he could digest her words, Niu Junjie rushed in with a big express box, shouting excitingly: “I bought it, I got it! My relative pulled some strings to get that for me! It is such a valuable product. It marks the first time for Xiao Bai’s works included on an album. Here, everyone will take one as a keepsake!”

He unwrapped the package quickly, in which lay the ten brand-new albums with familiar covers.

“It should include posts and calendars. So generous. What’s that? A glow stick?” Niu Junjie checked the free gifts and gave everyone two albums, saying seriously, “One for collection, one for listening. Xiao Bai, you can give the last two to Mr. Xu, he must be proud of you!”

He Bai was stuffed with four albums in the palms. He looked down and immediately saw his name at column of photographer. He was both a little bit confused and curious. Before he cleared his mind, he had subconsciously taken out his phone and texted Di Qiuhe.

He Bai: Jun Chen’s released his album.

It was natural that he didn’t get any reply. Since Di Qiuhe returned to district D, he had been busy with the filming stuff, work from dawn to night, so his phone would be in mute for whole day. He could only reply He Bai’s morning message in midnight or before dawn.

His off time must have been occupied by sleeping. Poor guy.

He put that concern aside and watched his roommates, who were genuinely happy for him. He thought of the hundreds of thousands of yuan that he had earned with a smile and waved to them with generosity, “I am so happy today. Let’s have a feast, my treat!”

They cheered and put their albums away, walking out of the dorm shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm.

They didn’t come back to dorm until 10 pm. They took turns to wash up and soon fell asleep after they went to the beds.

He Bai forced his eyes open and checked his phone. He killed the time by reviewing the gossip news of Huangdu and Qin’s family.

Finally, his phone vibrated. A new message came at 12:30.

Di Qiuhe: Congratulations! What gift do you want? I’ll get it and mail you.”

Lovely and sweet tone, not the annoying way Di usually carried on.

He Bai smiled and replied: Your eyes must have felt heavy-lidded.

Otherwise how could he be so well-behaved?

Di Qiuhe didn’t reply for half a minute and then immediately called him.

He Bai hung up and replied: They are asleep, so just text. Have you finished your filming today?

This time he replied quickly.

Di Qiuhe: Just finished. Dong Ni slowed us down again. Why are you still up? Lost sleep? I thought you had been asleep.

He Bai: Waiting up for you.

Silence for half a minute, then a brief message came: Little Puppy, do you miss me? Seeing this message, He Bai felt as if Di were whispering that by his ears.

He Bai imagined the proud, smiling face of Di Qiuhe and burst into laughter, replying deliberately, “Yes, daddy miss you.

Silence, again.

He Bai tapped the screen and counted.

One, two, three…One hundred and six, one hundred and sixty one…He wondered whether Di Qiuhe had fallen asleep while texting, then a new message came.

Di Qiuhe: I just checked my schedule. If we hurry up, the filming in district D can be finished on Thursday, then I will have one day off. I can talk to Uncle Jiang and return to city B to see you.

Di Qiuhe: How about bring some snacks from your hometown to you?

Gazing at these two sincere messages filled with care, He Bai softened his eyes and had complicated feelings. He sighed in his heart.

The next filming spot of Cheng’s Army was country K, a dozen hours’ flight from district D. The filming group gave artists one day off so that they could adjust to the jet lag after they reached country K.

Now, Di Qiuhe decided to hurry up his filming, which was already very tight just because he said “miss you”, and even gave up the off time to go back to city B to see him. This sweet behavior really…really made him…

He Bai: Have good rest, don’t take so much hassle for me. I will visit you this weekend.

He just couldn’t help spoiling him…He put down the phone with an upset face and sighed. He had decided to be an unapproachable man, but he couldn’t help it! He just wanted to coddle Di Qiuhe! Damn!

He just blamed himself while still texting: Just go to sleep. If you get black eyes, daddy will not like you. But it would not be a bad thing to see him. He could settle his confusion haunted him for many days face to face. The he could be an unapproachable man as planned.

He persuaded himself for a while and then texted a night-night message to Di Qiuhe, although he didn’t want to. He turned off his phone, covered his body with quilt and fell asleep.

D district, hotel.

Di Qiuhe sat on the bed in a daze. After gazing at the message for a minute, he came to himself and rushed to the washroom. He checked his eyelids and ensured that his dark eye circles were not so serious. Then he rushed back to the bed, taking out his phone and texted “good night” to He Bai. He closed his eyes and forced himself to sleep.

Five minutes later, he opened his eyes energetically. He tried not to call Jiang Xiuwen but failed. He said excitedly, “Xiu Wen! Little Puppy just said he liked me! He likes me! He must be gay! Absolutely! He also said that he would come to district D to see me! This weekend!”