Author: hoenimochi (Page 71 of 95)

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Chapter 14

August 20, 2022 / hoenimochi / 1 Comment

Dozen of tables in the lobby of Fuxiang House were already vacant, but there were still five or six tables of guests still drinking.

Chen Yuncheng came down from the second floor, stood on the side of the road, turned around, and looked at Zhou Yan who was going down the stairs.

Zhou Yan’s steps were heavy. He didn’t stop until he walked all the way to Chen Yuncheng. He placed his hands in the pockets of his cotton coat, and called out, “Cheng ge.”

There were no pedestrians on the side of the road at this time. A taxi was parked not far ahead, and the driver was probably waiting for the guests.

Chen Yuncheng asked Zhou Yan, “I thought you are not working with Zhang Wenyong anymore?”

Zhou Yan lowered his head and said nothing.

Chen Yuncheng’s tone was a little irritable, “Speak.”

Zhou Yan still lowered his head and said softly, “I want to make money for my son’s operation.”

Chen Yuncheng looked at him and asked, “Did Zhang Wenyong give you money? What did he ask you to do for him?”

Zhou Yan was silent for a while, then raised his head and said, “Cheng ge, don’t ask, just pretend you don’t know, okay?”

“What exactly is it?” Chen Yuncheng repeated in a serious tone.

Zhou Yan slowly shook his head.

Chen Yuncheng said, “You have been with Zhang Wenyong for a long time. Don’t you know what kind of person he is? Is his money so easy to get?”

Zhou Yan raised his hand and rubbed his face hard, “I know, but what can I do? That’s my son, I can’t watch him die!” He paused briefly, and his tone become slightly agitated, “I even discussed with Jiajia to either not treat him and wait for another one later, but no, I can’t do it.”

As he said that, he crouched down on the side of the road, and covered his face with his hands as if to hide his intense emotions.

Chen Yuncheng looked down at him: “Try to borrow it from someone else.”

Zhou Yan looked up and looked at him, “Cheng ge, you lent me all your 30,000 yuan. Who else can I borrow it from? They know if they lent their money to people like us, I can’t afford to pay it back.”

Chen Yuncheng stood quietly for a while, “So Zhang Wenyong gave you money and asked you to help him?”

Zhou Yan pursed his lips, “Cheng ge, if I don’t tell you, just pretend you don’t know. I know that the policeman surnamed Long often comes to disturb you. I don’t want to make things difficult for you in the future.”

“Paper can’t wrap the fire¹,” Chen Yuncheng bent down and put a hand on Zhou Yan’s shoulder, “Something will happen one day.”

Zhou Yan said, “Then I might as well treat my son’s illness first.”

When Chen Yuncheng was about to speak again, out of the corner of his eyes, he noticed that two tall figures were walking in their direction along the side of the road.

He looked up subconsciously, and by the light of the street lamp, he could clearly see the faces of the two people. It was the two X-ethnic people that Long Zhanyu asked him to help pay attention to.

Zhou Yan also noticed it, he stood up from the ground and looked at the two people as well.

At this time, there happened to be a table of eight or nine guests who came down from the first floor after dinner. These middle-aged men were all drunk, and they were making loud noises while going down the stairs.

Chen Yuncheng pretended to be distracted, and while holding Zhou Yan’s arm and pushing it away two steps, he looked at the group of middle-aged people.

Obviously, these people still hadn’t finished, and they were still talking to each other in groups by the side of the road. Some were calling for a chauffeur, and some were calling for taxis on the side of the road.

The two X-ethnic people approached and stopped between Chen Yuncheng and Zhou Yan with this group of middle-aged people.

One of them shouted in broken Chinese, “Is he upstairs?”

Chen Yuncheng saw Zhou Yan nod at the other man.

Neither of the two X-ethnic people noticed Chen Yuncheng, including the tall young man who had seen him in the bar didn’t seem to recognize Chen Yuncheng. After getting Zhou Yan’s answer, the two walked toward the stairs.

In the noisy voices beside him, Zhou Yan said to Chen Yuncheng, “Cheng ge, I have to go back.”

Chen Yuncheng didn’t ask about the two X-ethnic people, but just said, “Are you going back to Zhang Wenyong?”

Zhou Yan nodded, “It’s getting late, you go back first, and I’ll get you a taxi.” After he said that, he raised his hand to beckon to a taxi that passed by on the road.

Chen Yuncheng pressed his arm, “No need, I can go back myself.”

Zhou Yan was silent for a while, and then said, “Guan Anlin is out, he won’t trouble you, right?”

Chen Yuncheng shook his head, “Don’t worry about me, I hope you will think about your matter again.”

Zhou Yan didn’t answer, and said, “Then I’ll go up first.” After he said that, he turned and walked towards the stairs leading to the second floor.

Chen Yuncheng watched him leave until his back disappeared, then turned around and walked along the roadside alone, towards the bus stop in front.

The bus had very few passengers by this time, so Chen Yuncheng got on and easily found a seat. He sat down with some mixed emotions and took his mobile phone out of his jacket pocket.

Chen Yuncheng subconsciously found Long Zhanyu’s mobile phone number, but he didn’t press the dial button for a long time. Finally, he backed out and found an account on WeChat that he hadn’t contacted in a long time.

This person actually had dinner with him at Fuxiang House just now, but apart from the greeting when they met, the two never talked again.

Chen Yuncheng sent him a WeChat message: “Can you help me get Guan Anlin’s phone number?”

The other party never replied.

It was not until Chen Yuncheng returned to his small kiosk and took a simple bath and lay on the bed that the other party replied with a mobile phone number, followed by another message: “Cheng ge, don’t say it me who told you.”

Chen Yuncheng was a bit amused and replied to him, “No problem, thanks.” After that, he saved the mobile phone number.

When he looked at the time, it was already past eleven o’clock in the evening, and Chen Yuncheng dialed Guan Anlin’s mobile number.

The phone rang several times before Guan Anlin picked it up, and said “hello” indifferently.

Chen Yuncheng said, “This is Chen Yuncheng.”

The phone was hung up immediately.

Chen Yuncheng listened to the busy tone on the receiver, took the phone away, glanced at their brief chat, and then made up a text message to send: “Anlin, let’s meet up sometime to talk, just the two of us.”

Guan Anlin never replied to him, and Chen Yuncheng was not surprised. He threw away his phone and pulled up the quilt, covering most of his face with only his eyes exposed. He sighed secretly and closed his eyes to sleep.

Chen Yuncheng dragged his feet and did not call Long Zhanyu, he wanted to make another trip to the hospital to visit Zhou Yan’s son.

Chen Yuncheng still brought a carton of milk and tried to scr4p3 together another thousand yuan in cash. He knew that this amount of money would not be of much use to Zhou Yan, but he really had no money left.

When he left the kiosk in the afternoon, Chen Yuncheng closed the shutter door and stood at the door of the store. He looked at his small store and suddenly thought that if the whole store was sold out, he wondered if he could get 30,000 to 40,000 yuan for it.

He didn’t know what to do, and he walked toward the subway station with the milk in his hand.

Zhou Yan worked outside during the day, and in the pediatric ward of the hospital, Zhou Yan’s girlfriend Gu Yaojia was still accompanying the child.

When Chen Yuncheng arrived, the child was being given an infusion, the needle was inserted through his scalp. The little one was lying on the hospital bed and looked very pitiful.

Gu Yaojia looked thin, with no makeup on her face, and little blood on her cheeks and lips.

Chen Yuncheng sat beside the hospital bed, looked at the child on the bed, and asked Gu Yaojia, “Do you know what work Zhou Yan is doing now?”

Gu Yaojia stood leaning against the bed and said, “He said he was selling cars.”

Chen Yuncheng asked, “Is the brokerage fee for selling used cars very high now?”

Gu Yaojia shook her head, “I don’t know either. But his boss seems to be quite nice and is willing to lend him money.”

Chen Yuncheng looked at Gu Yaojia’s expression and guessed that she didn’t know anything. When she sat for a while and was about to leave, she gave Gu Yaojia one thousand yuan.

Gu Yaojia was stunned for a while and said, “Cheng ge, I can’t ask for your money. Zhou Yan said you lent him all your savings.”

Chen Yuncheng shoved it into her hand, “Take it first, I’ll talk to Zhou Yan about it. We grew up together as brothers, when he needs help, there’s no way I’ll leave him alone.”

Gu Yaojia shrugged it off a few more times but finally accepted Chen Yuncheng’s money.

Chen Yuncheng came out of the ward and felt his phone vibrate. As he walked towards the elevator, he took out his phone to take a look, and saw that it was Ning Junyan who sent a WeChat message: “I’m back, let’s have dinner together tonight.”

He didn’t even ask Chen Yuncheng if he was free, as if it was a not-so-polite order.

But Chen Yuncheng still laughed when he saw it, and replied, “Okay.”

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Why do you like someone but not want to sleep with them? Don’t you have a little sister who you are very affectionate with and like very much, do you want to sleep with her?!

What I said yesterday was mainly because I didn’t want to have too many cults or np² in the comments section, Because I don’t write that way and I don’t have that tendency, and it’s easy to quarrel in the comment area.

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Chapter 10

August 19, 2022 / hoenimochi / 2 Comments

Shen Huiming also wondered, what exactly was the evidence of liking a person or rather, falling in love with a person?

Your eyes always followed the other person at all times?

Getting attracted to every single action of the other person?

Unconsciously trying to interpret every look and every word of the other person?

Or, when you were just thinking about the other person, the most primitive desire to possess all of them rise up?

Shen Huiming actually didn’t like being in this state of putting too much of his mind on another person. This kind of situation consumes his mind too much, and his life was already busy enough that his time off was constantly squeezed and he didn’t have time to rest. So when emotional matters come into play, it would only makes him more exhausted.

But things had not turned out as he had expected. Instead of being tired, paying attention and trying to get a glimpse of Suo Yang’s matters had sparked his enthusiasm for life.

When he sat back next to Suo Yang, and the two were so close that Jiang Tongyan, who was one step late, could not squeeze himself between the two, he felt that this state was like someone had dropped a bomb into the pool of his life, which was as unchanging as it was, and the splashed everywhere in an instant. It was dangerous and exciting.

In the past 30 years, most of his challenges and self-challenges had come from his studies and career. Now he had finally stepped into another field.

Zhou Mo said, “Ming ge, what are you doing here?”

He narrowed his eyes at Shen Huiming, “Tongyan’s nose was on the verge of wrinkling.”

Shen Huiming smiled and picked up the cup comfortably, “Have a drink?”

“Let’s have a drink!” Zhou Mo and Shen Huiming lightly clinked glasses, then took a big gulp.

Zhou Mo was a smart person. He didn’t need Suo Yang to tell him anything when he sat down here. He could tell from the look in the other two people’s eyes that they had created a love triangle.

He especially wanted to roast Shen Huiming, who had said he would not consider a relationship before. Why was he so excited now?

But Zhou Mo was one of those people who didn’t think it was a big deal to watch the bustling scenes. He was still curious about how Shen Huiming and Jiang Tongyan would pursue Yang.

Suo Yang was more difficult to kick than an iron plate, who could overtake him would really be based on their true ability.

Zhou Mo stood up and twisted his waist happily.

When Shen Huiming turned to Suo Yang, he found that his face had turned a little red, and he knew it was because of Zhou Mo.

This man sat firmly in the corner of the room, with no expression on his face, but his eyes were slightly misty. A state that blurred the line between cold and seductive, making one wonder if he was rejecting you or seducing you.

Shen Huiming asked, “Too much drink?”

Suo Yang’s drinking capacity was actually quite average, especially today, all the wine Zhou Mo brought was strong with the purpose to intoxicate everyone.

But he was also very sensible and would not allow himself to get drunk on any occasion. He has a skill that once made Zhou Mo amazed—even if he had drunk too much, far beyond his limit, as long as he had not returned home, Suo Yang was able to stay awake and even made it impossible for anyone to see that he was extremely drunk. However, once he got home and entered the door, he couldn’t walk a single step and would collapse directly at the door and fall asleep.

Zhou Mo had only seen him in that state once before when Zhou Mo and he were roommates and they were both new to the company.

They were both new to the company, handsome, and were sure to be pestered at the annual meeting.

Zhou Mo was good at drinking, and no one could get him drunk. As a newcomer, Suo Yang certainly couldn’t refuse his seniors’ drink, so they both drank a lot. When the scene was over, the two of them seemed to be in a similar state. Suo Yang’s eyes and face were slightly red, and he was blinking less frequent, but his speech and actions didn’t show that he was drunk at all.

They both took a taxi home together and were chatting normally before they walked in the door. As soon as they entered the door, Suo Yang sat on the stool at the entrance to change his shoes and fell asleep.

That was the only time.

Zhou Mo didn’t know how many people had seen Suo Yang like this, but he felt that it was pretty awesome anyway.

This man, Suo Yang was very tense even when drinking, and Zhou Mo really didn’t know how to make him relax.

Facing Shen Huiming’s concern, Suo Yang smiled, “It’s okay.”

He looked at the wine glass in front of him, felt a little thirsty, picked it up and took another sip.

“Have something to eat.” Shen Huiming put the pastries on the table in front of Suo Yang, “Your stomach can’t take it if you just drink.”

Suo Yang smiled, “Thank you.”

Shen Huiming wanted to chat with him as much as possible, but he found that it was too difficult. Unless Suo Yang was willing to take the initiative to tell him some deep stories, no one could pry his mouth open.

Suo Yang stretched out his hand and picked up a pineapple cake. He hesitated when he opened his mouth to bite, and finally took a bite.

The pineapple cake tasted good, but the crumbs fell on him in all directions with this bite.

He lowered his head and frowned.

Shen Huiming smiled.

Suo Yang looked at him uncertainly, his eyes were full of questions: What are you laughing at?

Shen Huiming said, “I think your expression just now was a little cute.”

Cute?

It was the first time anyone had used the word to describe him.

“Take a tissue with you.” Shen Huiming handed him the tissue, “Or, I’ll help you take it.”

Suo Yang chuckled lightly, took the tissue and thanked him.

Next to them, on Shen Huiming’s left, Jiang Tongyan was being forced to drink with the dance partner he just met.

“Gege, I’m telling you, I’m really too miserable.” The young man who had danced with him was forcibly holding Jiang Tongyan’s arm, and was already drunk at this moment, “How come nobody loves me? I counted yesterday, in twenty-three years, I’ve been rejected twenty-three times, How come I’m so miserable? Am I not good-looking?”

Jiang Tongyan’s head hurt from his noises and he kept dodging back.

He ducked back and could only crowd in Shen Huiming.

The more he squeezed Shen Huiming, the more Shen Huiming had to get closer to Suo Yang in order to avoid him.

Shen Huiming reluctantly said to Suo Yang, “Sorry, these two are really… Shall we change places?”

At this moment, Suo Yang had been pushed into the corner, and as long as he relaxed, he and Shen Huiming’s legs would stick together.

That was too ambiguous.

Of course, he knew that Shen Huiming didn’t do it on purpose, and he also saw the drunken scene between the two behind him.

“It’s a little stuffy here,” Suo Yang said, “I want to go out and get some air.”

“I’ll accompany you.” Shen Huiming and Suo Yang stood up together.

As soon as he stood up, Jiang Tongyan, who was leaning on him, fell directly on the sofa, and the “poor little man” who was so drunk and burst into tears threw himself on Jiang Tongyan.

Suo Yang couldn’t hold back and laugh.

Jiang Tongyan felt that this was the end, and he had already been executed before the love rival battle with Shen Huiming had even begun.

He watched the two of them walk out of the room together, and he could only helplessly take a tissue and wipe the tears of the little drunk who was bawling in his arms.

He felt that his life was really bitter. Wasn’t Sou Yang his blind date? Why had he left with someone else?

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Chapter 90

August 17, 2022 / hoenimochi / 0 Comments

The air in the room was still stiflingly hot and humid.

The conversation between them two made everyone else feel that the atmosphere was a little weird, but Luo Fei still had a smile on his face and was comfortably lying on his back for someone to give him a back massage.

Sammy, who was still waiting for Li Zhenran, couldn’t help and asked, “Sir, do you want to continue?”

Li Zhenran said to Li Zhenruo, “You’ll see, everything can be proven.” After that, he went back to the reclining chair and sat down, letting Sammy continue to massage him.

Sammy glanced at Li Zhenruo and asked Li Zhenran curiously, “What were you talking about just now?”

Li Zhenran raised his head, half-closed his eyes, and said, “Just guess it.”

Sammy said, “I guess? His friend is your old lover?”

Li Zhenran smiled and said nothing.

Sammy massaged his shoulders skillfully, slowly lowered his palms, and said, “Sir, you are in such a good shape.”

Li Zhenran didn’t stop him, but at this moment, Li Zhenruo suddenly stood up.

Sammy was startled for some reason, and subconsciously stood up and looked straight at him, only to find that Li Zhenruo didn’t look at them, but walked directly to the bathroom.

Walking to the side of the bath, Li Zhenruo took off the bathrobe. When he changed his clothes, he didn’t think he was coming to take a bath, and he was still wearing a pair of underwear underneath.

At this time, Li Zhenruo hooked his fingers on the edge of his underwear and was about to slowly take them off when Luo Fei stood up and said to the two young men, “You guys go out first, I’ll go to the sauna.”

After he said that, Luo Fei put on his bathrobe and walked toward the sauna.

When they heard what he said, the two young people had to go out one after the other. Sammy was a little reluctant and threw a wink at Li Zhenran.

All of a sudden, only Li Zhenruo and Li Zhenran were left in this room.

Li Zhenruo had taken off half of his pants, and wondered about what he was afraid of, he couldn’t put them back on again, so he simply took it off and stepped into the pool and sat down.

The water temperature was just right, but the water in the pool was very clear and the scenery inside was unobstructed.

Li Zhenruo picked up a clean towel folded by the pool, dipped it in water and put it on his shoulders. He heard Li Zhenran’s footsteps coming over but did not turn around to look.

Until Li Zhenran sat down by the pool, stretched his feet into the pool water, and asked him, “Where do you live now?”

Li Zhenruo glanced at him slowly, “What’s the point of asking that?”

Li Zhenran said, “I just want to know if you are doing well?”

Li Zhenruo replied, “It’s not me that you care about.”

Li Zhenran reached out and stroked his hair.

“What for?” Li Zhenruo moved his head to avoid it.

Li Zhenran said, “Since the person I care about is no longer there, it’s good to see you for a while.”

Li Zhenruo frowned, “Don’t treat me like the replacement of your affection.”

Li Zhenran replied, “It’s not an affection, it’s just nostalgia, just like looking at a photo.”

Li Zhenruo actually didn’t know whether he should be angry or indifferent at this time. After all, he was not really Shen Luming, and his emotions are all those of Li Zhenruo’s and none of those of this soul.

Li Zhenran’s fingers rested on the back of his neck and gently rubbed it.

Li Zhenruo reached out to hold his hand and turned to look at him.

Li Zhenran said, “There’s a mole there, do you know it yourself?”

Li Zhenruo stood up and said to Li Zhenran, “It doesn’t matter if I know, you can miss me like a photo, but I am a whole person, please don’t play with me like a doll.”

After he said that, Li Zhenruo walked to the edge of the pool and raised his legs to step out. However, the bottom of the pool was a little slippery, and he fell over the side with one leg unsteadily, just in time to be caught in Li Zhenran’s arms.

Li Zhenran picked him up and put him outside the bath.

Luo Fei was seeing this scene when he came out. He said to Li Zhenruo, “Although Mr. Li is our big client, you don’t need to sacrifice yourself to help the business talk. So be more restrained in public.”

Li Zhenruo gritted his teeth and replied, “Yes boss.”

As they left the sauna, Luo Fei prepared dinner today and invited other guests besides Li Zhenran, which was why he did not let Li Zhenruo go.

Xu Shengwen had already made arrangements for dinner.

There were not many people at dinner, but Li Zhenruo bumped into Hua Yibang.

The moment Hua Yibang saw Li Zhenruo, his eyes under the lens showed a surprised look. He glanced at Li Zhenran wanting to say something, then followed Li Zhenran to the table in a disciplined manner.

Tonight was purely a social occasion.

Li Zhenruo knew one of the guests, Ling Yi. The man was the manager of the Yuegou supermarket chain. Part of Yunlin’s e-commerce network was to build a large online supermarket, purchase and checkout through the computer or mobile client platform, and build a logistics network for home delivery. As for other parts of this e-commerce network, Li Zhenran had more ideas, but they just needed to be realized step by step.

Li Zhenruo sat next to him and listened. He felt that these things were not very helpful to him at present. His goal was to be able to meet and learn about suitable suppliers from Luo Fei here, starting with an online store and becoming a simple distributor.

At this dinner, Li Zhenruo and Xu Shengwen, as Luo Fei’s assistants, were, to put it bluntly, here to hold the drinks.

When he picked up the wine glass, Li Zhenruo suddenly recalled something and suddenly hesitated. The last time he was drunk before, he couldn’t control the cat ears and cat tail showing. He hadn’t remembered it for a long time, but now that he was drinking, the memory jumped out at him.

Luo Fei had already hinted that Li Zhenruo to toast Li Zhenran and Ling Yi.

Li Zhenruo was now working for someone else, and even if he wanted to be his own boss, he still had to socialize in the beginning. It would be bad not to overcome this problem. He believed that as he gradually became more skilled at controlling his spiritual power, this should not be a big problem.

So he stood up with his glass. Li Zhenruo first toasted Ling Yi with a glass of wine, then walked up to Li Zhenran and said, “Boss Li, I toast to you.”

Li Zhenran picked up the wine glass and stood up, clinking the glasses with him politely, and then drank it.

Li Zhenruo walked to his seat and sat down, and felt as if he was beginning to feel a little dizzy. He could not be blamed for his poor drinking capacity, and he had to blame Shen Luming for that.

After three rounds of drinking, Li Zhenruo had begun to feel less sober. He tossed and reached out to touch the top of his head because his back was facing the wall. If the tail came out for a while, no one would see it, but it would be bad if the ears came out.

Ling Yi, who was sitting opposite, saw that he kept touching, and couldn’t help but ask, “What the hell are you touching?”

For a time, the whole table looked at him.

Li Zhenruo blurted out, “Ear.”

Next to him, Xu Shengwen laughed, grabbed his hand and touched his ear, “The ear is here.”

Li Zhenran and Luo Fei looked at each other, Luo Fei couldn’t help but shake his head and laugh.

Everyone thought he drank too much. Except for Li Zhenran and Luo Fei, no one thought too much.

It was just that Li Zhenruo touched the back of his buttocks uneasily again, but since he didn’t feel it, he didn’t touch it again, but suddenly he felt something.

The chair’s feet scraping on the floor made a lot of noise, and by this time everyone was sitting around chatting in a low voice, so once again everyone looked over at him.

Li Zhenruo took two steps back, his back was against the wall, and his face was flushed with alcohol. He then said, “I’m going to the bathroom.”

At that moment, he clearly touched something fluffy, and he was sure that his tail came out.

Luo Fei actually had a smile in his eyes, but he said with a stern face, “If you want to go to the bathroom just go to the bathroom, what’s all the fuss about? Do you want me to walk you there?”

Li Zhenruo shook his head quickly, “No, I’ll go by myself.”

He kept his back against the wall and entered the bathroom. After locking the door, he started to touch the back of his butt over and over again and twisted his waist to look in the mirror. After looking at it for a long time, he didn’t find a tail.

What was that furry thing just now?

At this time outside, a waiter took the opportunity to come in for dessert and took away the keychain that he had dropped on top of Li Zhenruo’s chair when he was pouring the wine.

There was a white fur ball hanging on the keychain, which was exactly what Li Zhenruo touched with his finger just now.

With no tail or ears, Li Zhenruo breathed a sigh of relief, sat on the toilet lid, leaned his head against the wall and fell asleep like that.

It wasn’t until later that the people outside were ready to leave that Li Zhenran asked the waiter to bring the bathroom key and open the door from the outside.

Before Luo Fei left, he asked, “Are you going to take care of him?”

Li Zhenran nodded, “I’ll do it.”

Li Zhenruo woke up when the waiter opened the door. He sat up and looked outside blankly, “Where’s the boss?”

Li Zhenran stood at the door of the bathroom and told him, “They have left.” Then he said to the waiter, “It’s alright, I’ll take care of him.”

The waiter nodded politely and left first.

Li Zhenruo stood up, took two steps outside, and suddenly stopped to touch the top of his head and buttocks, but nothing strange was found.

Li Zhenran told him, “The ears are not showing and neither is the tail, don’t worry.”

Li Zhenruo turned to look at him, “I’m leaving, Mr. Li.” After speaking, he passed by Li Zhenran and walked outside.

Li Zhenran followed behind him, “I’ll send you off.”

Li Zhenruo said, “How dare I trouble you, I’ll just go back by myself.”

Li Zhenran took it easy, “I should always complete the tasks that your boss gave me.”

The two came out of the hotel one after the other, and Li Zhenruo stood on the side of the road trying to stop the car.

Li Zhenran grabbed his arm to stop him, “I have asked the driver to drive over, come with me.”

Li Zhenruo looked at him, “Mr. Li, show some respect, I am not Li Zhenruo.”

Li Zhenran let go of his hand, “I respect you, I just want to take you home.”

Li Zhenruo said, “I don’t need a ride from you, aren’t you going to respect my opinion?”

Li Zhenran suddenly pointed to the top of his head, “Cat ears.”

Li Zhenruo froze and was about to reach out to touch them when suddenly a coat came down over his head and Li Zhenran grabbed him by the shoulders and said, “The car is here, there are too many people here, get in and talk.”

Under the influence of alcohol, Li Zhenruo couldn’t react properly, and he couldn’t judge whether his ears were really coming out. He was led by Li Zhenran to the car before he pulled off Li Zhenran’s coat and threw it to him, “Take it away, I don’t want to smell you.”

His nose was too sensitive, and the smell of Li Zhenran was all over his coat, which made his breathing a little hard.

Li Zhenran grabbed the coat and didn’t get angry. He then said, “Why do you drink so much since you can’t drink it? Come back to me, you don’t have to work so hard.”

Li Zhenruo said, “I’m doing fine now. I want to live the life I choose, not the one others have paved for me to go.”

Li Zhenran said softly, “You can choose any path, I’m just giving you a choice.”

Li Zhenruo turned to look at him, “Thank you, Mr. Li, but no need.”

Li Zhenran said to him, “Okay, you can always come to me at any time if you need it.”

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Chapter 89

August 14, 2022 / hoenimochi / 1 Comment

Li Zhenruo had little to pack for his move. He had almost nothing to pack, not even clothes, so he moved into the house that Luo Fei prepared for him empty-handed.

The so-called staff dormitory was actually a suite prepared by Luo Fei who didn’t want him to continue to sleep with Feng Junyuan. It was very close to the company and the surrounding environment was not bad.

The room was fully furnished but still lacked some daily necessities. The boss Luo Fei was very considerate and asked the company to give him a month’s salary in advance, and let him buy it himself when he moved in.

Li Zhenruo went to the supermarket and simply moved back to a cat bed so that he wouldn’t have to buy a set of bedding. He wasn’t uncomfortable sleeping by himself.

At night, Li Zhenruo stayed alone in his room reading a book. He asked Song Jun to go to the school library to help him borrow many books related to logistics. He didn’t know anything yet, so he could only quietly study more.

When he was tired of reading, Li Zhenruo went to take a shower, blow-dried his hair, turned into a cat and curled himself up in the cat’s bed to go to sleep.

Luo Fei was generally a good boss to get along with, and he had more than one assistant around him, so Li Zhenruo’s job was relatively easy at the moment.

Li Zhenruo had a lot of curiosity about the identity Luo Fei had. In the beginning, Li Zhenran helped him get his ID card through Luo Fei’s connections.

Li Zhenruo was not without common sense, it wasn’t easy to get a real ID card in such a short time. He believed that there must be a powerful backup behind Luo Fei, or else Luo Fei was not actually a human being.

What was it? A great demon like his master?

For this question, Li Zhenruo asked Feng Junyuan curiously.

With an “Ah” Feng Junyuan said, “Can’t tell you.”

Li Zhenruo said strangely, “Why can’t you tell me?”

Feng Junyuan said firmly, “I can’t say it.” No matter what method Li Zhenruo tried, he couldn’t pry Luo Fei’s mouth open.

That afternoon, Luo Fei went out with another assistant, Xu Shengwen, and left Li Zhenruo to stay at the company.

Li Zhenruo was looking through the documents in the office, and shortly afterwards he received a call from Xu Shengwen, asking him to bring over a document from Luo Fei’s desk.

After he hung up, Li Zhenruo did as Xu Shengwen instructed and found the document inside the kraft paper bag on Luo Fei’s desk.

He took the documents and asked the company’s driver to drive him to the address given by Xu Shengwen, which was a commercial club in the city with a bathing sauna inside. When Luo Fei went out at noon, he said he was doing some business talk, and now Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but silently cursed at Luo Fei’s carefree business talk.

The driver dropped him off at an address, and Li Zhenruo called Xu Shengwen while walking inside after getting off the car.

Xu Shengwen was waiting for Li Zhenruo at the door of the private room. When he saw him coming, he said, “Jason, please send the documents to Mr. Luo inside.”

Li Zhenruo had planned to hand the documents to Xu Shengwen, but at this time he had to withdraw his hand and asked, “I’m going in?” He didn’t understand why he had to go instead of Xu Shengwen, but as Xu Shengwen was a senior and he was still in his internship, he would naturally do what he was told to do.

Xu Shengwen just smiled and patted his shoulder and said, “Go ahead.”

Li Zhenruo then took the document and wanted to walk into the private room, but was stopped by the staff at the door of the private room, and said politely, “Sir, please change first.”

“Change clothes?” Li Zhenruo looked up at the top of the private room door and saw no obvious signs. However, he still obeyed the request of the waiter and went down to the dressing room next to him to change clothes under the guidance of the staff.

When he looked back at Xu Shengwen, he saw that the other party smiled kindly at him, which was a little unclear.

Li Zhenruo was taken to the dressing room and changed into a bathrobe. All other valuables were kept in the wardrobe of the dressing room. He only used a waterproof bag to pack the documents, and then went back to the private room wearing slippers.

As soon as the private room door was opened, the water vapour coming from the shop was wrapped in a familiar scent.

Li Zhenruo sniffed, and he could clearly smell the scent belonging to Li Zhenran.

There was a bath in this private room, and there was a sauna next to it.

There were three people in the private room. Luo Fei was lying on the massage table, covered with a bath towel, with a young man beside him massaging his shoulders, and there was a person sitting with his back to him in the bathtub. He didn’t need to look to know that it was Li Zhenran.

Li Zhenruo just glanced at Li Zhenran’s back, then walked towards Luo Fei and said, “Mr. Luo, I brought the documents.”

Luo Fei raised his head and glanced at him, but only said “um” and said nothing else.

Li Zhenruo looked at the handsome young man who was massaging him and regretted that he had left his mobile phone in the locker in the locker room, otherwise he should have taken some photos and sent them to Feng Junyuan.

Luo Fei didn’t give any orders, and Li Zhenruo stood beside him without moving.

At this time, there was the sound of water coming from the bathtub, and Li Zhenruo subconsciously turned to look and saw that Li Zhenran was about to get up from the water.

Li Zhenruo subconsciously glanced at the young man beside him, then turned to look at Li Zhenran, saw that he stood up and did not come out immediately, but took a bathrobe and put it on before stepping out of the bathtub.

Li Zhenran seemed to have lost weight.

In fact, it was only a month away from the last day he saw Li Zhenran, but Li Zhenruo felt that Li Zhenran seemed to be really thin. He stared at Li Zhenran’s clearly visible collarbone and his increasingly sharp jawline.

It wasn’t until Li Zhenran sat down on the chair next to him that Li Zhenruo averted his gaze.

“Xiao Tuan,” Luo Fei said suddenly, “Read the document to Mr. Li.”

Li Zhenruo nodded, walked to Li Zhenran’s side, opened the waterproof bag and took out the document. At this time, Li Zhenran reached out to him, “I’ll read it myself.”

Without Luo Fei’s consent, Li Zhenruo did not immediately hand him the document but looked at Luo Fei.

Luo Fei said, “Let’s give it to Mr. Li to read for himself. This is the document I told you came out from above. The policy will change, and the price change is natural. You can wait until the official document come down from above, and then consider whether you are going to regret it or not.”

The latter sentence was said to Li Zhenran.

Li Zhenran took over the document and did not rush to open it, but looked at Li Zhenruo and said, “I remember your name is Shen Luming?”

Li Zhenruo said to him, “Now my name is Li Tuan.”

Li Zhenran nodded, “Can you sit for a while and wait for me?”

“Of course,” Li Zhenruo sat down beside him.

Li Zhenran opened the document, but said to Li Zhenruo, “You didn’t study at university anymore?”

Li Zhenruo replied, “I can’t continue to study at university now.”

Li Zhenran asked him, “What about your girlfriend?”

Li Zhenruo said, “I can wait for her to graduate.”

Then the two were silent for a short time.

Li Zhenran flipped through the documents, but Li Zhenruo felt a little bored, so he stood up and pulled the placket.

“Are you used to working here at Luo Fei’s?” In the quiet room, Li Zhenran suddenly asked again.

Li Zhenruo looked back at him and said nothing.

Li Zhenran then raised his head and waited for him.

Li Zhenruo noticed Li Zhenran’s protruding collarbone again, he turned his head and looked forward, “There’s nothing to get used to, you get used to it as you do it, people are like that.”

Li Zhenran said, “But I’m still not used to it.”

Li Zhenruo didn’t answer him.

Li Zhenran said to himself, “It’s like there’s something missing in my life, and I can’t get used to it.”

Li Zhenruo said, “You will get used to it gradually, or you will find something else to fill in.”

The young man who had been concentrating on massaging Luo Fei couldn’t help but look up at the two of them when he heard them talking.

At this time, Luo Fei buried his head and said, “I didn’t ask you to come here to flirt with my guest.”

Li Zhenruo said, “When did I flirt with your guest? Besides, you said it was your guest. I’m helping my boss to accompany the customer, shouldn’t you give me more bonus?”

Luo Fei let out a laugh, “Talking to your boss like that? You think I’m your old boss?”

Li Zhenruo replied, “I’m sorry, you are my first boss, and I have never followed other bosses.”

Li Zhenran had already read the document by now and handed it back to Li Zhenruo.

Li Zhenruo took it and put it in the waterproof bag.

Luo Fei asked Li Zhenran, “How was it?”

Li Zhenran said, “I will seriously consider your suggestion just now.”

Li Zhenruo sorted out the documents and asked Luo Fei, “Boss, is there anything else?”

Luo Fei said, “Wait a minute.”

Li Zhenruo could only wait beside him in silence.

Luo Fei said to the young man beside him, “Call someone to come and give Mr Li a shoulder massage.”

The young man replied, “Okay,” he left Luo Fei and walked outside. When he reached the door, he seemed to remember that there was another person in the room, and turned back and asked, “Only for one person?”

Luo Fei asked Li Zhenruo, “Do you need it?”

Li Zhenruo said, “No need.”

Luo Fei said to the young man, “One person is enough.” Then he told Li Zhenruo: “Don’t be in a hurry, and sit down next to him first.”

There was a small table next to it, with fruit plates and drinks on it.

Li Zhenruo was polite, walked over and sat down to eat a few gr4p3s.

Soon another young man came in, this time he had dyed blond hair and was very handsome. He said with a smile on his face, “Hello, my name is Sammy, may I ask which gentleman needs a massage.”

Luo Fei pointed in the direction of Li Zhenran.

Sammy walked over to the empty massage table and said, “Sir, come and lie down.”

Li Zhenruo looked at Li Zhenran.

As a result, Li Zhenran said, “No need, just sit and massage.”

Sammy seemed a little surprised, “It’s uncomfortable to massage while sitting. Lying on your stomach is the most comfortable.”

At this time, the young man who was massaging Luo Fei couldn’t help but interjected, “Just do as the customer tells you.”

“Oh,” Sammy then walked behind Li Zhenran, put both hands on his shoulders, and started massaging him.

Li Zhenruo looked at them expressionlessly while eating gr4p3s.

Sammy said, “Sir your shoulders are so stiff, you haven’t worked out much lately, have you?”

Li Zhenran didn’t answer.

Luo Fei said, “Why do you ask so many questions?”

Li Zhenruo was a little bored, he stretched out his arms, and the bathrobe was falling halfway down, revealing half of his shoulders and chest.

Li Zhenran suddenly stood up and walked up to him to help him pull up the bathrobe.

“What for?” Li Zhenruo was a little surprised by his sudden action.

Li Zhenran squatted in front of him, helped him pull the bathrobe, and then re-fastened his belt.

Li Zhenruo looked down and saw the top of Li Zhenran’s head, and then saw Li Zhenran raise his head and said to him, “This is the body of the person I love the most, don’t just expose it to others like that.”

Li Zhenruo was stunned and said to him, “It has nothing to do with you anymore.”

Li Zhenran stood up and looked down at him, “Can you tell me what he said to you last?”

Li Zhenruo said, “Do you want to know?”

Li Zhenran replied, “I want to know.”

Li Zhenruo said, “He said he loves you, but he is afraid that you will lie to him.”

Li Zhenran said, “I won’t lie to him again.”

Li Zhenruo shook his head, “How does he know you’re not lying to him with that words?”

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Chapter 13

August 13, 2022 / hoenimochi / 1 Comment

The place where they ate was at Fuxiang House, a local restaurant, and the restaurant was on the second floor along the street. The evening was the best time for the business, the lobby was full of guests when they entered, and there was a lively clamour everywhere.

Chen Yuncheng followed Zhang Wenyong through the crowd, and a waiter greeted them halfway through and took them to a private room inside.

As soon as the private room door opened, Chen Yuncheng saw six or seven people sitting around the round table. All of them were young people, two or three of whom he knew.

Everyone he knew greeted him, and some even stood up and called out “Yong ge,” then nodded to him and called, “Cheng ge.”

Zhang Wenyong sat on the main seat opposite the door and said with a smile, “Still remember your Cheng ge, eh.” As soon as Zhang Wenyong sat down, someone handed him a cigarette, and then someone took a lighter to help him light it.

Chen Yuncheng found a seat by himself and sat down.

The private room was small, with the door closed and the air conditioner on, the whole room was filled with smoke and the air was foul.

The young man that sat next to Chen Yuncheng originally knew him, but at this time he didn’t talk to him again, and didn’t even look at him.

Chen Yuncheng was still at ease, he opened his jacket to reveal the cotton shirt inside, glanced around the table, and asked, “Is Anlin here yet?”

Zhang Wenyong answered him with a cigarette in his mouth, “Don’t be in a hurry, I’ve already sent someone to pick him up.”

Chen Yuncheng calmly said, “I’m not in a hurry.”

There were five or six dishes of cold dishes on the round table, no one touched the chopsticks, everyone was smoking and chatting, and only Chen Yuncheng occasionally took a sip from the teacup in front of him, and soon drank the cup to the bottom.

No one helped him to refill his tea, and the waiter in the old restaurant was not attentive. The waiter only opened the door and asked if he should serve the food, and then never came again.

Chen Yuncheng put the empty cup back.

After waiting for about 20 minutes, the door of the private room was pushed open again, and a tall, thin young man came in from the door. The young man looked like he was in his twenties. Because of his single eyelids, his eyes were long and narrow, his nose was high, his lips were thin, and his hair was cut so short that his scalp could almost be seen.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Wenyong stood up immediately and greeted him with a smile, “Anlin, you are finally back.”

The others followed Zhang Wenyong and stood up to look at the person at the door, and Chen Yuncheng also stood up slowly.

Guan Anlin stood at the door, his eyes swept across the faces of everyone and finally stopped in front of Chen Yuncheng. He stared blankly at Chen Yuncheng for a few seconds, then walked towards Zhang Wenyong, and called out “Yong ge”, before he raised his hand and hugged him.

Zhang Wenyong patted him on the back, “You have suffered for the past two years.”

Guan Anlin didn’t speak and just shook his head.

After that, Zhang Wenyong introduced him to the young people at this table one by one. Two of whom Guan Anlin knew, while the rest were people he met for the first time.

Chen Yuncheng watched Guan Anlin shook hands with those people with a calm and indifferent expression, and felt that he didn’t look like the Guan Anlin he remembered at all.

It was not until the end that Zhang Wenyong pointed to Chen Yuncheng and said to Guan Anlin, “Chen Yuncheng, you still remember him, right?”

Chen Yuncheng didn’t extend his hand, just looked at Guan Anlin earnestly, and said to him, “Anlin.”

Guan Anlin didn’t respond, and said coldly, “I don’t recognize this person anymore.”

Zhang Wenyong was smoking a cigarette with the expression of watching a good show. When he heard this, he patted Guan Anlin on the shoulder with a smile, and said, “It’s okay if you don’t recognise him. Let’s sit down to eat first, and then take your time to talk.”

Guan Anlin’s seat was opposite of Chen Yuncheng. Before he sat down, he took off his dark jacket. Inside was a tight black jumper, which completely outlined his figure. One could see that his chest and arms were all tightly muscled. These were muscles that had been developed over a long period of time doing physical work, not exaggerated but very powerful.

At this time, Zhang Wenyong called the waiter to serve hot dishes and then asked the accompanying junior to open a bottle of white wine. For a while, the whole private room was lively, and everyone was busy pouring wine and toasting.

Only Chen Yuncheng was free, no one toasted him, and no one took the initiative to talk to him.

Chen Yuncheng didn’t eat much food. He just glanced at Guan Anlin occasionally as the smoke filled the room. He wanted to chat with Guan Anlin, but he wasn’t sure if Guan Anlin wanted to chat with him.

Guan Anlin never looked at Chen Yuncheng again except for the moment he first came in.

Zhang Wenyong didn’t intend to simply let Chen Yuncheng go. When three-quarters of the meal was eaten, he suddenly said to Guan Anlin, “Anlin, you said you don’t recognize Chen Yuncheng, do you mean you don’t want to pursue the past? “

Guan Anlin probably didn’t expect Zhang Wenyong to suddenly say this. He raised his hand and placed the chopsticks in front of him neatly on the table. He asked Zhang Wenyong, “Yong ge, what do you think I should pursue?”

The whole private room was quiet and listened to them.

Zhang Wenyong had been smoking all night. He tapped his finger on the table and said, “For those of us who are out and about, the most taboo thing is not to preach about morality, don’t you think so?”

Guan Anlin didn’t speak, he was also smoking and stared at the bowl in front of him as if he was a little lost.

Zhang Wenyong didn’t care if he didn’t get an answer and continued, “At that time you went in so suddenly that we couldn’t look into many things in detail. Now I’m asking you, did someone betray you?”

He was asking Guan Anlin, but his eyes kept looking at Chen Yuncheng.

Guan Anlin raised his head and looked at Chen Yuncheng.

Chen Yuncheng faced them calmly.

Zhang Wenyong said, “Anlin, don’t be afraid, you are Yong ge’s brother. If something happens, Yong ge will naturally help you out clean up those who should be cleaned up.”

Guan Anlin looked at Chen Yuncheng. After a long time, he put the cigarette between his fingers to his lips, took a slow breath, and said, “Thank you Yong ge, but there are some things I want to handle by myself.”

Zhang Wenyong was a little surprised and asked him, “Are you sure?”

Guan Anlin nodded, “I’m sure.”

Zhang Wenyong seemed unhappy, his face slumped slightly, and he leaned back on the back of the chair, but still said, “Fine, two years have passed anyway, there’s no rush.”

After he finished speaking, Chen Yuncheng said to Guan Anlin, “Anlin, can we talk?”

Guan Anlin looked at Chen Yuncheng, and before he could answer, the private room door was pushed open from the outside. Zhou Yan walked in a hurry, carrying a cold air that had not yet been dispersed, and said, “Yong ge, I’m sorry I just had something, I’m late.”

After he finished speaking, he saw Chen Yuncheng, and his whole body suddenly stopped in place.

Chen Yuncheng frowned and looked at Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan said softly, “Cheng ge, I didn’t know you were here today.”

Chen Yuncheng stood up and asked Zhang Wenyong, “Yong ge, I have something to tell Zhou Yan, do you have anything else?”

Zhang Wenyong didn’t answer, just glanced at Guan Anlin.

Guan Anlin’s expression was cold.

Zhang Wenyong spread his hands, “Anlin said he wanted to handle it himself, so from now on, it’s none of my business, so help yourself.”

Only then did Zhou Yan notice Guan Anlin, with a surprised expression, “Lin ge? You are out?”

Chen Yuncheng had already walked toward Zhou Yan and said to him, “Let’s go, I have something to ask you.”

At this time, Guan Anlin called out in a cold voice, “Chen Yuncheng.”

Chen Yuncheng turned his head and said to Guan Anlin, “Anlin, I’ll find you later, we can sit down and talk slowly.”

After he said that, he took the lead and walked out of the private room. Zhou Yan immediately followed.

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There are many people who like Chen Yuncheng, but the only one who wants to sleep with him is Ning Junyan

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Chapter 9

August 12, 2022 / hoenimochi / 1 Comment

When a person has unchaste thoughts for another person, then any sentence the other person says was no longer simple, and every word has an underlying meaning left to the understanding of the listener.

Therefore, when Suo Yang said that he liked the brand of Shen Huiming’s cufflinks, Shen Huiming understood that, at least between him and Jiang Tongyan, Suo Yang was more interested in him.

Of course, Shen Huiming was a very clear-headed person, and he was not a smartass who keep going and talking more. Sometimes it was not appropriate to speak too clearly when dealing with some people.

The two looked at each other and smiled, Suo Yang seemed to inadvertently look away, and continued to handle the song with ease.

Hands held together, veins linking to the heart.

The warmth of the heated fingertips also reached the tip of the heart.

Perhaps he really received some hints of the so-called ‘fate’, and Suo Yang kept thinking about his ‘fate’ with Shen Huiming.

The first meeting was at an altitude of 30,000 feet, and the second meeting was in thousands of square kilometres’ foreign country.

Now, for the third time, he was accidentally introduced to Jiang Tongyan, who had a ‘magical’ relationship with Shen Huiming.

Everything seemed to be implying something.

Suo Yang couldn’t help but pay attention to these successive ‘coincidences’.

He felt that perhaps when they first met, on the sky he was familiar with, someone was playing with their fate on a whim, tying an obscure knot between them.

“What are you laughing at?” Shen Huiming asked softly.

Suo Yang looked at him without hesitation and replied, “I’m laughing that fate is so unpredictable.”

At the end of the song, Jiang Tongyan returned to find his first dance partner as soon as possible. However, Shen Huiming very unkindly refused to let go of Suo Yang’s hand, and said to Jiang Tongyan, “Now he is my partner.”

Jiang Tongyan chuckled, “Can I say something?”

The two men stood on either side of Suo Yang, looking at each other with a smirk.

Suo Yang said nothing, let go of Shen Huiming’s hand, and went back to find a drink.

The man who just danced with Jiang Tongyan passed by them and dropped a line, “When rivals in love meet, both would be green with envy, and you two will have blood dripping from your eyes!”

Jiang Tongyan smiled, “Rivals in love? Are we two rivals in love again?”

Shen Huiming replied seriously, “Depends on how you interpret it.”

He touched his pocket, turned to look at Suo Yang, who was sitting there drinking, and said to Jiang Tongyan, “Let’s go out for a cigarette?”

The two of them needed to have a good chat, just like real love rivals.

Jiang Tongyan followed Shen Huiming to the outside, shut down all the noise in the room, and faced the noise outside.

He took the cigarette handed by Shen Huiming, lit it for the two of them, and asked with a smile in his eyes, “The first time?”

Shen Huiming took a drag on his cigarette and smiled too, “Probably.”

“Tell me about it?” Jiang Tongyan laughed, “I’m quite surprised.”

“I’ve met him twice before,” Shen Huiming said, “Do you believe in love at first sight?”

“I believe in love at the first appearance.” Jiang Tongyan said to him, “You just can see how good-looking some people are.”

“He is good-looking, and you’ve never seen him in a uniform. It’s unforgettable at a glance.” Shen Huiming said, “The first time I saw him was on his plane, I’m not afraid of you teasing me, I asked for his contact information, but he didn’t give it.”

Jiang Tongyan laughed, “Well done!”

Shen Huiming also laughed, “I thought that was it. I didn’t leave my contact details and I was afraid that we wouldn’t meet again in the future, but to my surprise, it seems that the fate of the two of us has not run out.”

Jiang Tongyan stared at him with a light smile, and the smoke he exhaled slightly blurred the vision between the two of them.

“So now it’s a declaration of war?” Jiang Tongyan asked, “I’m a little nervous now, after all, I’m going back to New York the day after tomorrow, and after all, you’re in the pavilion closest to the water enjoying moonlight first¹.”

“It’s not a declaration of war,” Shen Huiming said, “I’m just curious about what you’re thinking.”

He turned around and looked at Jiang Tongyan, “Although I have the confidence to get the moon first, I still want to know if you really want to be with him, or…”

Jiang Tongyan laughed.

“Old Shen, I’m calling you Old Shen, don’t you understand?” Jiang Tongyan looked at him seriously, “At 30, we both are already clear that neither you nor I are the rash young man we were back then, I am not that naive.”

He took a drag from his cigarette, “Suo Yang is not bad, at least he gave me a very good first impression, he is my ideal perfect lover.”

He smiled and looked at Shen Huiming, “Let me tell you this, gay marriage is now legal in New York and I can give him a stable marital relationship.”

“Do you think this is your advantage?” Shen Huiming also smiled, “Besides, you only met for the first time today. Isn’t it too early to talk about this now?”

After the cigarette was finished, Shen Huiming threw the cigarette butt into the trashcan, “Tongyan, I didn’t think we both could get away with it.”

“I really didn’t think so.” Jiang Tongyan followed him and threw away the cigarette butt, smiling relaxedly, “So it would have been better if we hadn’t reunited?”

Both of them looked at each other meaningfully.

“I suddenly remember one thing now,” Jiang Tongyan said. “The night when the negotiation ended, your assistant drove us, and halfway through you got out of the car to talk to someone and later let us go first.”

Jiang Tongyan asked softly, “The person I met at that time was Suo Yang, right?”

Shen Huiming smiled, “Look, you missed the beginning.”

Old friends met again yet surprisingly they turned tense at their reunion. Although from who they were, it seemed a bit ridiculous to do this for a man that both of them had not yet been intimately acquainted with. Even Jiang Tongyan was a little confused for a moment whether he had to fight with Shen Huiming because he really had to have Suo Yang or whether he simply was annoyed.

“Let me remind you of one thing,” Jiang Tongyan said, “Suo Yang was introduced to me by Zhou Mo. It was you who rejected it at the beginning and then he was introduced to me. It was you who missed out.”

“Let me also remind you of one thing, the so-called ‘introduction’ is a two-way choice, it’s not a one-shot deal.” Shen Huiming lightly rubbed his cufflinks with his fingers, he said, “If Suo Yang also expressed his affection for you and decided to try a relationship with you, I’ll withdraw unconditionally. However, if he doesn’t make a stand, we are all still outsiders in his world.”

Shen Huiming smiled, “We’re done talking and we’re done smoking, shall we go back?”

The two turned around and walked back together.

Jiang Tongyan said, “Old Shen, to be honest, I am very confident to break that curse this time.”

“I’m also very confident,” Shen Huiming said with a smile, “to keep that curse.”

The two returned to the room where the people were dancing wildly. Suo Yang was chatting with Zhou Mo about something while drinking.

Jiang Tongyan said, “I haven’t had sex for more than a year.”

Shen Huiming glared at him, and raised his hand to give Jiang Tongyan another hard slap on the chest, “Behave yourself, don’t be obnoxious.”

Jiang Tongyan laughed and said, “Look at you, I’m just saying about it. I don’t believe you don’t have that in mind about him.”

How could he not?

Shen Huiming looked at Suo Yang who was sitting there.

Some people’s presence was comparable to that of the strongest wine, which could make you slightly drunk at a distance, and by the time you got closer, you couldn’t wait to get drunk in the smell.

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Chapter 88

August 10, 2022 / hoenimochi / 0 Comments

Li Zhenran stepped into the rain curtain. He squatted down in front of the Garfield on the ground and reached out to touch his chest. Its chest was still warm and heaving softly.

At that moment, Li Zhenran’s expression was a little dazed.

He admitted that he was hesitant at the last moment. When he knew that Li Zhenruo began to contact Shen Luming, his first thought was to keep the two of them apart no matter what. It wasn’t that Li Zhenrah didn’t think of other options, and he even hesitated to go after Shen Luming first.

However, now that he and Li Zhenruo have come to this point, he started to be overcautious and was reluctant to make any rash moves, for fear that their relationship would come to an irreparable end.

But even if he tried hard to save it, Li Zhenruo didn’t give him any room to regret and chose to leave easily.

“He—” Li Zhenran opened his mouth to ask Xia Hongshen.

At this time, the Garfield, who was lying on the ground, slowly opened his eyes.

Li Zhenran watched him struggle to get away from his palm, rolled and stood up. His legs were still a little weak, but he took two steps back.

The heavy rain made it difficult for Garfield to open his eyes. He shook his head and shook the water on his body, looking at Li Zhenran with strange and wary eyes.

Xia Hongshen didn’t like being exposed to the rain either. The feeling of wet clothes wrapped around his body reminded him of the feeling of wet fur on his body, which was very uncomfortable. He asked the Garfield, “Are you okay? Getting used to your body?”

The Garfield shook the water on his body again, and instead of looking at Li Zhenran, he came to Shen Luming who was lying on the ground and looked at Shen Luming worriedly.

Xia Hongshen said, “It’s okay, he can’t wake up for the time being, and he may have to be taken to the hospital. He lost consciousness before and was occupied by you.”

The Garfield seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and lightly touched Shen Luming’s hair with his lips.

Li Zhenran stood up slowly and looked at him without saying a word.

Xia Hongshen walked over to pick up Shen Luming and walked towards the stairwell. The Garfield hurriedly followed behind him without looking at Li Zhenran.

“Teacher Xia,” Li Zhenran suddenly stopped Xia Hongshen.

Xia Hongshen had already carried Shen Luming to a place where there was no rain, turned around and looked at Li Zhenran, “What?”

Li Zhenran’s clothes were completely soaked, and his hair was on his cheeks. He asked Xia Hongshen, “How can I find him?”

Xia Hongshen said, “If he can be reincarnated smoothly, maybe one day you can meet him.”

After he finished speaking, Xia Hongshen carried Shen Luming and left, while the Garfield followed him and hurriedly walked out.

Only Li Zhenran was left alone, facing the empty rooftop.

When Li Zhenran returned that night, he fell ill.

He didn’t eat dinner. After he took a shower and dried his hair, he lay limp on the bed, with a sore and dry throat. The whole person was a little muddled, lacking in energy, but unable to sleep.

After a while, Li Zhenran picked up his mobile phone and made a call. He said to the people over there, “Keep watching over Shen Luming to see if he has changed from the past, if he is still with his girlfriend, and if he has given up his plans to go abroad.”

After giving these instructions, Li Zhenran hung up the phone, raised his head and closed his eyes.

He didn’t fully believe that the scene he saw today was true, but his sadness wasn’t fake either.

His head hurts, but his brain was running unconsciously. What he should do next emerged clearly in his mind, but he couldn’t do it.

The more he did, the further he was likely to push Li Zhenruo.

At this time, Wang Ma knocked on the door outside and told him to go down for dinner.

“No,” Li Zhenran replied in a hoarse voice, “I’m not feeling well.”

Wang Ma heard the words and said quickly, “What? Are you sick? Do you want someone to take you to the hospital?”

Li Zhenran replied, “No, I’ll just take a couple of cold pills and I’ll be fine.”

He had always been in good health. Today, he was probably sick because of the rain and his emotional turmoil. Li Zhenran’s whole body was aching and felt weak, and he had no appetite or desire to move when he was lying in bed.

After a while, Wang Ma brought him cold medicine, congee, and pickles.

Li Zhenran reluctantly drank some congee and took the cold medicine with a glass of water.

Wang Ma sat by the bed, looked at him tenderly, and suddenly asked, “Where’s Dumpling?”

Li Zhenran raised his arm to block his eyes and said softly, “Ran away.”

Wang Ma was stunned for a while, “Ran away again?” Then she sighed and said, “I guess it’s time for him to go into heat again, I told you to castrate it a long time ago, but you are reluctant to do it.”

When he heard this, Li Zhenran couldn’t hold back a wry smile, “I’m just afraid that he wouldn’t live long after he was castrated.”

Wang Ma went out with the porridge bowl he had not finished eating and helped him close the door.

Li Zhenran reached out and picked up the collar at the head of the bed, and his fingers lightly stroked the lettering inside the collar, which had his own name engraved on it, as if to indicate the owner’s possession of the pet.

In fact, he really hadn’t used the positioning function of the collar for a long time. For him, the collar no longer had the same meaning as it had at first, but unfortunately, Li Zhenruo would not believe it.

Holding the collar, Li Zhenran rolled over somewhat uncomfortably, lying on his side and closed his eyes, but his hands never let go of the collar.

The heavy rain that had been falling all day finally stopped at night.

Li Zhenruo and Xia Hongshen were cooking hotpot around the induction cooker, and the fragrance wafted throughout the small building.

Song Jun was in charge of the dishes, while the others stared at the pot with their bowls and drooled.

Shortly after the potato slices were cooked, Long Xing wanted to stretch out his chopsticks, but Xia Hongshen hit him hard with his own chopsticks.

Long Xing looked at Xia Hongshen at a loss and withdrew his hand.

Xi Anling glanced at Long Xing and then at Xia Hongshen, and quickly put the chopsticks into the pot, but Xia Hongshen threw the chopsticks out before she caught the potato chips.

Xi Anling complained, “I want to eat potato slices!”

Xia Hongshen said expressionlessly, “Not soft.”

Xi Anling pouted, “I like crispy ones!”

Xia Hongshen said, “No.”

Long Xing whispered, “I also want to eat the crispy ones too…”

Xia Hongshen looked at them coldly, “If you all eat all the crispy ones, I’ll never be able to eat the soft potato chips.”

Xi Anling tapped the bowl with chopsticks, pointed at Xia Hongshen and said, “You tyrant!”

Xia Hongshen raised his head, his jawline was elegant and smooth, “Got a problem with that?”

Long Xing reached out and hugged Xi Anling’s shoulder, “Forget it.”

Unconvinced, Xi Anling pushed Feng Junyuan and said, “Xiao Feng, shall we vote?”

Feng Junyuan still held the bowl and continued to stare at the pot. When he heard this, he glanced at Xi Anling and said hesitantly, “I want to eat soft ones too.”

Song Jun said at this time, “I’m going to the supermarket tomorrow to buy a nine-square grid. What each person wants to eat will be thrown into the small grid in front of him. Eat what you eat and don’t touch others.”

Xi Anling said quickly, “I agree!”

Only Li Zhenruo said nothing and stared at the hot pot in a daze.

Song Jun nudged him lightly, “What? Are you in a bad mood?”

Li Zhenruo raised his head, saw everyone looking at him, and quickly said, “No.”

Song Jun said, “Look, you lied to him, but you’re actually still sad inside.”

Li Zhenruo heard the words and said, “I think he may not fully believe it.”

“Why?” It was Long Xing who asked the question.

Li Zhenruo sighed and said, “Master’s acting skills are too exaggerated.”

Xia Hongshen didn’t seem to raise his hand, but Li Zhenruo felt a knock on the head, and then heard Xia Hongshen say, “Blaming me?”

Li Zhenruo said quickly, “I don’t blame you, I blame myself as the disciple for being useless.”

Song Jun asked at this time, “What if he believed it?”

Li Zhenruo said, “Maybe we should separate.”

Xi Anling said softly, “Let’s not talk about that.”

When Xi Anling saw that Xia Hongshen was looking at Li Zhenruo, she immediately stretched out her chopsticks and put a piece of potato in the pot, but only when she ate it in her mouth did she realize that it had become soft.

As he saw this, Xia Hongshen said, “Oh, you can start eating.”

After that day, he never saw Li Zhenran again.

In regards to the matter of feelings, Li Zhenruo intended to put them aside for a while and treat himself as someone who was out of love. It was a terrible thing to fall out of love, but the pain of falling out of love and being unable to get out of it was even more terrifying.

Li Zhenruo accepted Luo Fei’s invitation when he asked him to work in the logistics company that Luo Fei was running.

The job was offered to him by Feng Junyuan, and at first Li Zhenruo was a bit hesitant. It was just that he had no capital and no experience now, and it was already the best choice for him to have a company like Luo Fei’s accept him.

Moreover, previously he knew that Li Zhenran had been in contact with Luo Fei for Yunlin’s development in e-commerce. Real estate investment would slow down next, and with Yunlin’s commercial real estate companies, the large-scale development of e-commerce was definitely the next most important development trend. When he was still in Yunlin, Li Zhenran had already started to prepare for this.

Now that he and Li Zhentai had left one after another, Li Zhenran was a bit distracted. The development of e-commerce had slowed down a little, but it should be the next big thing for Yunlin.

If he could go to work at Luo Fei, you would definitely come into contact with a lot of e-commerce industries, maybe he could point out a path for his future development, and he could have the opportunity to establish some personal connections.

With this idea in mind, Li Zhenruo went to Luo Fei’s company for an interview.

As a result, the big boss gave him an interview in person. Luo Fei sat behind the big desk, glanced at him, and said, “Okay, come and be my assistant.”

“Huh?” Li Zhenruo was stunned.

“Don’t want to?” Luo Fei asked him.

Li Zhenruo said, “I think it is more suitable for me to start from the grassroots level, even if I have to look after the warehouse, it’s fine.”

Luo Fei heard the words and said, “No need, Fourth Young Master Li.”

It had been a long time since anyone called him that, Li Zhenruo looked at Luo Fei, “Did xiao Feng complaint to you or did Li Zhenran complaint to you?”

Luo Fei said, “Junyuan complaint to me.”

Li Zhenruo nodded, then approached Luo Fei suspiciously and asked, “What exactly is your relationship with my master and the others?”

Luo Fei said calmly, “I’m Junyuan’s lover, don’t you know that?”

Li Zhenruo said, “I know, but as far as I know, xiao Feng isn’t a human at all, right? What about you?”

Luo Fei smiled, “You care so much about your boss’s privacy?”

Li Zhenruo said, “I haven’t worked for anyone else before, and I thought that since I was working for someone else now, I had to find out what my boss might like, right?”

Luo Fei said with a smile, “Then you don’t have to worry about it, you just need to know that what I like is Feng Junyuan.”

Li Zhenruo heard the words, and nodded, “I’ll remember.”

Luo Fei said, “When can you go to work?”

Li Zhenruo said, “Anytime.”

Luo Fei said to him, “Okay, the company provides accommodation and food, you can start working today and move into the company dormitory in the afternoon.”

“Huh?” Li Zhenruo was a little surprised, but then quickly realized that he had been living with Feng Junyuan until now, and his boss must be unhappy.

Luo Fei opened the drawer, took out a key and threw it at him. The key was wrapped in a small note with the address and house number written on it.

“Special privileges, one set of an independent dormitory, you live alone,” Luo Fei looked at him, “How’s that? Is it convenient to move?”

Li Zhenruo took the key and shook it, “You’re not going to deduct the rent from my salary, are you?”

Luo Fei said, “No.”

Li Zhenruo suddenly smiled and said, “Then it’s not a problem.”

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I have read all the opinions of xiao shou, and after thinking about it carefully, maybe compared to two men struggling with hundreds of thousands of words about love or not, readers of Danmei may prefer the love story of a real man struggling in the battle, career, cultivation and fighting monsters in these plots, I won’t say whether I like it or not. But it’s true that I’m not good at writing those plots. I’ll finish filling the hole in the secret love story after this one is over, and I’ll be careful about starting a longer story in the future.

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Chapter 8

August 9, 2022 / hoenimochi / 0 Comments

Suo Yang thought, there are stars hidden in people’s eyes phrase was indeed an exquisite metaphor.

When a person saw something he liked, or someone he liked, their eyes would light up unconsciously. A projection of joy and desire, and was regarded as a shining star.

It was not that he felt such ‘joy’ and ‘desire’ were bad, but in recent years, he had rarely felt such a desire for anything, and rarely had stars in his eyes, as Jiang Tongyan had said.

Suo Yang was a little puzzled and felt that he didn’t think he was too good for Shen Huiming.

Suo Yang smiled at Jiang Tongyan and pointed to the flickering lights, “It’s not a star, it’s a lamp.”

Jiang Tongyan could see that this was a man who would never give in to any outside interference in matters of emotion. Suo Yang was a man who only recognises his own heart.

He didn’t say more, even though the phrase of ‘an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved’ was already on his lips.

It was better not to recognise it.

Jiang Tongyan thought: Then I would still have a chance.

He had a good impression of Suo Yang, because the Suo Yang he had seen so far was almost infinitely closer to his ideal pf a boyfriend.

He was arrogant but not impatient, intelligent but not c0cky, calm and restrained, reserved and refined.

Everything about Suo Yang fits into the criteria he set for his other half, as if this person was tailor-made for him.

Of course, Jiang Tongyan knew that Suo Yang was definitely not as simple as he appeared, he was a difficult person to figure out, and he didn’t even know how to please him.

Jiang Tongyan meaningfully observed Suo Yang beside him, and Suo Yang, who was being watched had long since noticed the other man’s gaze, but he pretended to be oblivious and looked at the still lively centre of the stage.

Shen Huiming had already been pardoned and got off the stage, but Suo Yang’s eyes did not follow him and stayed on the stage all the time.

“Well?” Jiang Tongyan said to Shen Huiming, who walked back with a helpless smile, “Do you feel like the pressure has been released?”

Shen Huiming sat down and took a sip of wine, then said with a wry smile, “I feel more pressure.”

Suo Yang didn’t join their chat, just watched and listened.

Several muscular men on the stage danced provocatively, and under the cheers of the crowd, they began to slowly pull down the zip of their tights

Suo Yang’s fingers lightly rubbed the wine glass, seemingly watching, but also seemingly lost in thought.

Not far away, Zhou Mo pretended to be shy and pounced on Cheng Sen’s arms, then boldly ran up to the stage to dance provocatively with the dancers.

When the strip show was over, Zhou Mo called out to everyone to drink, and the lights in the whole place were lit up in that ambiguous yellow colour.

Zhou Mo ran over and asked, “How is it?”

He squeezed in next to Suo Yang, the ‘How is it’ referred to how Suo Yang felt about Jiang Tongyan.

Before Suo Yang could answer, Jiang Tongyan took the lead, “It’s pretty good.”

Zhou Mo stared at him with a smile, “Our Yang ge is indeed pretty good!”

Suddenly an idea struck Zhou Mo’s mind, he then drank the wine in his glass, got up and ran again.

The music changed to a soothing dance tune, and Zhou Mo pulled Cheng Sen close, flirting as they danced a duet.

Soon, everyone was looking for a dance partner in the crowd. Before Shen Huiming could extend out his hand, Jiang Tongyan said to Suo Yang, “May I have the honour?”

Suo Yang smiled slightly, put down the wine glass in his hand, got up and put his hand on Jiang Tongyan’s open palm to him.

The two blend in into the dance floor. Even though they were dancing, Suo Yang’s expression didn’t change in any way—he was still smiling, decent but distant.

Shen Huiming was vexed by his slow reaction and was surprised that Jiang Tongyan had taken the lead first.

He was drinking and sitting there with a loathsome face.

Once a man like him was alone, he would be the prey of some people. One hand stretched out, and the owner was a man with a delicate and pretty face with seduction written in his eyes.

The man looked at Shen Huiming and smiled, opened his thin lips, and said to Shen Huiming, “Handsome guy, dancing?”

Without Suo Yang, Shen Huiming didn’t plan to dance.

But when he looked up and saw the two of them on the dance floor, his desire to win suddenly flared up.

He took the man’s hand and led him “unintentionally” to Jiang Tongyan and Suo Yang’s sides.

Suo Yang glanced at Shen Huiming who was holding the stranger’s hand, and watched as the two hooked their hands on each other’s shoulders. Then heard Jiang Tongyan say, “Don’t look at others, look at me.”

Suo Yang withdrew his gaze and smiled at him.

This kind of pas de deux¹ was not so much about dancing but about flirting.

Zhou Mo and Cheng Sen were so lovey-dovey that they were on the verge of kissing each other during a dance, and Shen Huiming’s partner was pressing himself against him bit by bit.

But Shen Huiming had a sense of propriety that when the other party stepped closer, he stepped back. The two always maintained their original distance and caused the other party to pout.

“Gege, what’s the matter with you?” the man said aggrievedly, “Do I have body odour?”

Shen Huiming laughed, “No.”

“Then why are you avoiding me?”

Shen Huiming didn’t answer but looked at Suo Yang subconsciously.

As he did so, the dance partner in front of him also looked back.

“Understood.” His dance partner smiled and said, “Your sweetheart has been snatched.”

Shen Huiming laughed, “It’s not like that.”

“Watch me.”

His dance partner suddenly pulled him to the side of Jiang Tongyan and Suo Yang while dancing, and even deliberately bumped Jiang Tongyan’s back.

Jiang Tongyan looked back, nodded his head in a very gentlemanly manner and apologised, then ducked to the side with Suo Yang.

The more they avoid, the closer the man pulled Shen Huiming.

Jiang Tongyan laughed, “What does this mean?”

Shen Huiming’s dance partner winked at him, “I didn’t mean it.”

Shen Huiming didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to pull the person to the other side.

When he saw that they were gone, Jiang Tongyan continued to dance with Suo Yang and said, “Old Shen can be quite childish sometimes.”

Suo Yang smiled without saying a word and danced indifferently.

Suddenly, the music changed, and Zhou Mo shouted, “Swap partners!”

He was like a commander, with one order, everyone was looking for a new dance partner nearby.

Before Jiang Tongyan could react, the person in front of him had turned into the one who kept bumping into him.

He turned back to look for Suo Yang and found that the other party was being held by Shen Huiming around his waist.

Suo Yang said, “You react very quickly.”

Shen Huiming laughed, “Otherwise, how can I snatch you back?”

Snatch you back?

Suo Yang smiled and said, “Your partner dances well.”

“You mean you or…”

“The one just now,” Suo Yang said, “I can’t dance.”

“This kind of dance, it’s not about dancing well or not,” Shen Huiming said to him as he looked him in the eyes, “It’s about who to dance with.”

He wrapped his arms around Suo Yang and turned around, facing Jiang Tongyan who was looking over.

“Tongyan likes you very much.”

“It’s merely just a good impression on the first meeting,” Suo Yang said, “Like is still out of question.”

“What about you? Do you have a crush on him too?”

Suo Yang glanced at Shen Huiming’s cufflinks and said, “I like this brand.”

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Chapter 87

August 7, 2022 / hoenimochi / 0 Comments

That night, Li Zhenruo really dreamt that he was spanking Li Zhenran’s ass.

It was not just like taking off his pants and slapping a few times with the palm of his hand. But in a dimly lit room, as if to enforce the house rule, he made Li Zhenran lie on his back on a bench with his trousers down to reveal his firm and shiny buttocks, and then he took a long whip. He swung it in the air and made a whistling sound, and then aimed the whip heavily at Li Zhenran.

At the same time as the whip was struck, Li Zhenruo also woke up. He sat up abruptly from the bed, pulled the quilt away with a dark face and glanced at himself.

Next to him, Feng Junyuan turned over and asked vaguely, “What’s wrong?”

Li Zhenruo said softly, “It’s okay, you can continue to sleep.”

Having this strange dream didn’t make him feel any better, but Li Zhenruo thought that Xia Hongshen was right, why should he punish himself at this time? Isn’t Li Zhenran the one who should be punished?

It was raining outside, probably since last night. The rain dripped on the tiles of the old house, ticking everywhere, and the air was filled with damp and cold smells.

It was almost dawn, and Li Zhenruo felt that he was wide awake and no longer drowsy.

He began to seriously consider what he should do next if Shen Luming really wasn’t going to take his body back.

Of course, he couldn’t just stick to Xia Hongshen and the others like that. Not to mention that his master was poor as hell himself and had such a big family.

So he had to continue his cultivation training and had to go to work to earn money. It was best to save enough capital first and then develop slowly, he was still very young, wasn’t he?

Before he knew it, it was dawn. Li Zhenruo saw that Feng Junyuan was still sleeping soundly next to him, and sat on the bed without moving.

After a while, someone knocked lightly on the door outside.

Li Zhenruo got out of bed and went to open the door. He saw Song Jun standing at the door, and whispered to him, “Someone is looking for you.”

“Looking for me?” Li Zhenruo heard the words and looked into the corridor. In fact, his first reaction was that Li Zhenran came to him.

Song Jun shook his head and said to him, “This way.” Then he motioned for Li Zhenruo to follow him.

Li Zhenruo then followed Song Jun through the corridor and into his and Xia Hongshen’s room across the hall.

The room was very warm, Xia Hongshen lay lazily on the bed and did not want to get up.

Song Jun went to the window and lifted the curtain, asking Li Zhenruo to look through.

Li Zhenruo approached and saw a man standing on the opposite side of the path downstairs. The man was wearing a black suit, wrapped in a long black trench coat, holding an umbrella in his hand, and he was slender.

Song Jun whispered, “I saw him when I woke up in the morning. I don’t know when he came.”

Although his face was covered by an umbrella, Li Zhenruo could recognize that it was Li Zhenran.

Because it was raining a bit heavily, half of Li Zhenran’s sleeves were already wet by the rain, and the legs of his trousers were also wetly wrapped around his legs.

Song Jun said, “Bitter meat plan¹.”

Li Zhenruo couldn’t help laughing when he heard the words.

Xia Hongshen was lying on the bed and said in a muffled voice, “Come here, apprentice.”

“Master,” Li Zhenruo went to Xia Hongshen’s bedside well-mannerly.

Xia Hongshen stretched out his finger and pointed at him, “I told you, spank him, if not, slap his face, let him suffer the lesson he deserves.”

“But Master,” Li Zhenruo said, “The problem between me and him is not something that can be solved by punishing him. The biggest problem between us now was about trust. I don’t doubt that he loves me, I just doubt that every word he says to me is true.”

Xia Hongshen said, “Then teach him enough lessons so that he will never dare to lie to you again.”

Li Zhenruo was quiet for a while, then stood up and went back to the window, looking at Li Zhenran downstairs.

Song Jun went out to wash in the water room.

Li Zhenruo took his mobile phone and called Li Zhenran.

The call was quickly connected, and the receiver was full of background sounds of raindrops falling on the ground. Li Zhenran said, “Zhenruo?”

Li Zhenruo said, “What are you doing here?”

When he heard this, Li Zhenran raised his head and looked towards the window on the second floor, and saw Li Zhenruo who was standing by the window on the phone.

His deep voice came through the receiver, “Did you go to see the person surnamed Shen?”

Li Zhenruo said blankly, “Are you monitoring me?”

Li Zhenran said to him, “I said I had someone watching him.”

Li Zhenruo was silent for a while and replied, “Yes, I went to see him.”

“Why do you want to see him?”

Li Zhenruo said, “I was going to return my body to him.”

Li Zhenran’s eyes suddenly became sharp, and even through the rainy sky, Li Zhenruo could still see clearly.

“Have you made up your mind?” Li Zhenran asked him.

“Well,” Li Zhenruo said, “I’ve thought about it, and we’re waiting for the right moment. I’ll give my body back to him, then I’ll go to the Naihe Bridge and drink a bowl of Granny Meng’s soup and forget about you when I go to my next life.²“

Li Zhenran said, “I don’t agree.”

Li Zhenruo breathed out slowly, “You can’t control everything, right? Things have always gotten out of hand once or twice, like when Li Zhentai got someone to kill me, or when I chose to leave you now. You go to all the trouble to calculate, and maybe the result you get in the end won’t be the one you want.”

“Zhenruo—”

Li Zhenruo didn’t listen to him and chose to hang up the phone.

Li Zhenran still held the phone to his ear, looked up at him and didn’t leave.

Li Zhenruo closed the curtain silently, then turned to Xia Hongshen and said, “I want to put on a show for Li Zhenran to watch.”

Xia Hongshen sat beside the bed and yawned.

Li Zhenruo said, “I want to trick Li Zhenran into thinking that I have returned my body to Shen Luming.”

At this time, Song Jun happened to come in from outside, and after hearing Li Zhenruo’s words, he couldn’t help but sigh, “It’s so cruel.”

Li Zhenruo was a little exasperated, “I was much more gentle with him than he was with me.”

Xia Hongshen said to Song Jun, “Let them toss and turn, it’s none of your business.”

Song Jun nodded hurriedly and silently went to pack up the things he needed for today’s class.

Xia Hongshen said, “If you really fooled him, he will definitely suffer.”

“Master,” Li Zhenruo said, “You may think I’m good for nothing if I say it. The reason why I went to Shen Luming last night and offered to return my body to him was that I was beginning to feel scared of Li Zhenran and I couldn’t figure out what he was thinking.”

Xia Hongshen then asked him, “Have you calmed down now?”

Li Zhenruo nodded, “I thought about it for a long time. If I continue to maintain my fear and distrust of him, then we will definitely have no way to go on.”

Song Jun couldn’t help but ask, “Then do you still want to continue to be with him?”

Li Zhenruo was silent for a moment and said, “If I’m not afraid anymore.”

Xia Hongshen got out of bed wearing a piece of clothing, “Fear is because you are not strong enough.”

Li Zhenruo looked at him.

Xia Hongshen said, “In every sense, you are not strong enough.”

Li Zhenruo couldn’t help looking back at the window, through the curtains, he didn’t know if Li Zhenran was still there, but Xia Hongshen was right, he was not strong enough, so he feared the other person.

In this relationship, he was just putting himself in the position of the weaker one, but who loved whom more and who was more afraid of whose departure?

Suddenly, he was a little glad that Shen Luming had rejected him last night when he was at his most impulsive, otherwise when he really stepped on the Naihe Bridge, would he not be able to help regret it.

Li Zhenran didn’t stay at the school building for too long, because there was a meeting in Yunlin in the morning.

Yunlin’s recent conferences had continued, mainly due to the adjustment of the upper management and the large-scale personnel changes after Li Zhenran took over.

However, during today’s meeting, everyone could see that Li Zhenran was not in high spirits.

Li Zhenzi sat next to him and occasionally glanced up at Li Zhenran, seeing him sitting in a large office chair, leaning back, elbows propped up on the armrest, holding a pen in one hand, his gaze falling on the information in front of him, but his expression seemed inattentive.

After the speaker reported the content, he fell silent and waited for Li Zhenran’s opinion.

Li Zhenran didn’t speak for a while.

Li Zhenzi put his hand to his mouth and coughed softly.

Li Zhenran then raised his head and said, “Continue.”

So the next person went on to report.

Suddenly, Li Zhenran’s cell phone rang, and the person preparing to report stopped again.

Li Zhenran answered the phone in front of the entire conference room. After listening to the person on the other side with a blank face, he only said coldly, “Keep an eye on him.” Then he hung up the phone and threw it on the table to let them continue.

At the end of the meeting, Li Zhenran directly picked up the stack of documents in front of him and walked out.

Li Zhenzi was pulled by a department manager and said a few words, and then he hurriedly followed Li Zhenran’s office. When he wanted to knock on the door to go in, he heard that there seemed to be a phone call inside.

He put his head on the door and wanted to eavesdrop. Hua Yibang looked a little embarrassed and said, “This is not quite appropriate, is it?”

“Shh—” Li Zhenzi put his index finger on his lips.

It was a pity that the door was well soundproofed. Li Zhenzi eavesdropped for a long time and couldn’t hear anything.

Suddenly, Li Zhenran pulled the door open from the inside.

Li Zhenzi was startled, stood up straight and pretended to be knocking on the door.

Li Zhenran ignored him and said directly to Hua Yibang, “I have to go out for something.”

Hua Yibang heard the words, “Then I will ask the driver to prepare the car.”

Li Zhenran said, “No, I’ll drive by myself.” He put on his jacket and walked outside.

Li Zhenzi was still limping, but he tried his best to catch up and asked, “Second brother, where are you going?”

Li Zhenran pressed the elevator and told him, “It’s none of your business.”

The elevator was on the twenty-third floor, and the elevator door opened quickly.

Li Zhenzi followed Li Zhenran into the elevator, “What’s wrong? I didn’t see your cat last night, did it run away from home?”

Li Zhenran ignored him. When the elevator went down to the basement floor, and the doors opened, Li Zhenzhi was about to follow him out, and Li Zhenran suddenly turned around and punched Li Zhenzi in the lower abdomen and said, “Don’t follow me.”

Li Zhenzi bent down from the pain groaned and said, “Do you have to be that ruthless…”

Li Zhenran received a call from the person he arranged beside Shen Luming, telling him that Li Zhenruo went to Shen Luming again, and this time it was very clear that he would return his body to Shen Luming.

On the way, Li Zhenran drove furiously and ran two red lights. He didn’t know if the so-called handing over the body was that simple, but he knew that Li Zhenruo’s so-called master didn’t seem to be that simple.

Having seen a cat become a human, he dare not say anything in the world was impossible.

After driving the car to the school and parked on the side of the road, Li Zhenran got out of the car and ran into the adjacent teaching building, anxiously waiting for the elevator to sit on the top floor of the teaching building, then turned to the stairs and ran to the roof.

Li Zhenran suddenly pushed open the roof door and saw a person standing outside while the other two were lying on the ground.

It was still raining, and everyone on the rooftop was soaked by the rain.

Li Zhenran walked in the direction where Li Zhenruo was lying.

Xia Hongshen, who was standing beside him, said to him, “You are late, he has already returned his body.”

Li Zhenran paused after hearing the words and asked, “What about him?”

Xia Hongshen looked at the sky, “A wisp of a soul, it should have been reincarnated long ago.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Zhenruo on the ground shrank his limbs and turned back into a cat, but still lay unconscious.

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Chapter 12

August 6, 2022 / hoenimochi / 5 Comments

“Are you drunk?” Chen Yuncheng asked Ning Junyan.

Ning Junyan shook his head and said, “I’m not drunk.” He finally let go of Chen Yuncheng’s hands and sat up from the bed. He got up and walked around the table to get his coat hanging by the wall.

Chen Yuncheng saw that he was really going to leave, and said, “You’ve been drinking, don’t drive.”

Ning Junyan paused for a moment, he took out his phone and said, “I’ll call a chauffeur.”

Chen Yuncheng didn’t plan to ask him to stay. After all, he didn’t have any extra room for Ning Junyan to stay here. He just waited with Ning Junyan for more than ten minutes, and then send him off when the chauffeur arrived.

By this time, the rain had died down, falling so thinly onto the ground that the sound could barely be heard.

The young chauffeur started the car. Ning Junyan sat in the passenger seat, pressed the window down, and said to Chen Yuncheng, “I’m going on a business trip in two days.”

Chen Yuncheng nodded, not understanding why he suddenly said this to him and thought that Ning Junyan still had something to say.

Ning Junyan didn’t say anything.

Chen Yuncheng had to tell the chauffeur to drive carefully. He then stepped back two steps and stood on the street to wave them goodbye. After the driver drove away, he turned around and went back to his kiosk.

After tidying up the room, Chen Yuncheng turned off the light and lay on the bed. It was quite late, he drank a little more wine, and drowsiness surged up quickly, and he quickly fell asleep.

The next morning, after Chen Yuncheng had breakfast, he remembered to send a message to Long Zhanyu, sending the name and address of the hotel where he followed the X-ethnic people last night.

It didn’t take long before Long Zhanyu called him and said to him, “You don’t need to care about that, we can find out the address, just pay attention to whether he has contacted any local people.”

Chen Yuncheng frowned, “Officer Long, since you’ve already tracked down his address, is it difficult to keep track of who he is in contact with?”

Long Zhanyu said, “It’s not difficult, I just don’t want to alert the snake yet.”

Chen Yuncheng understood what Long Zhanyu meant, and the key issue was not with the two X ethnic people, but with the local people they might have come into contact with, who might be able to recognize the police in their jurisdiction, just like Chen Yuncheng, who had dealt with Long Zhan Yu and the others quite a lot back then.

He asked Long Zhanyu, “What are these two people doing?”

Long Zhanyu said, “Don’t pry, but as long as there is enough evidence, we will definitely arrest them. Until then, I’m afraid we’ll have to hold back a bit.”

Chen Yuncheng said, “Okay.”

He was about to hang up, but Long Zhanyu suddenly stopped him and said, “I’m meeting some classmates for dinner tonight, and I’ll come by your place this afternoon to pick up two bottles of wine and a cigarette.”

Chen Yuncheng replied, “Okay, police officer.” Only then did the call really end.

Long Zhan Yu did not make Chen Yun Cheng an informant for nothing. He had taken care of Chen Yuncheng’s business a lot in the past two years. For the family reunion at New Year, the wine was taken from Chen Yuncheng’s kiosk.

After five o’clock in the afternoon, Long Zhanyu drove his private car to Chen Yuncheng to get tobacco and alcohol.

Chen Yuncheng carried two bottles of wine, put a cigarette under his arm, and sent it directly to Long Zhanyu beside the car.

Long Zhanyu did not get out of the car. With a cigarette in his mouth, he took out his wallet from the inner pocket of his jacket, took out a few hundred-yuan bills, and asked him, “How much?”

Chen Yuncheng said, “Three hundred and fifty will do.” After he said that, he asked Long Zhanyu, “Do you want to put it in the trunk?”

Long Zhanyu raised his hand and pressed the door lock, and said, “Just put it on the passenger seat.”

Chen Yuncheng opened the passenger door, put two bottles of wine under the seat, and placed the cigarette directly on the seat.

Then he took the money from Long Zhanyu, smiled and said, “Just right, Officer Long.”

Long Zhanyu said “Um” and asked him, “Is business going well recently?”

Chen Yuncheng said, “It’s okay.”

Long Zhanyu suddenly moved closer to him and said softly, “Did you know that Guan Anlin was released from prison yesterday?”

Chen Yuncheng looked at Long Zhanyu, and after a little silence, he said, “I don’t know.”

Long Zhanyu said, “If he comes to harass you, you can call the police. It is our duty to protect the citizens.”

Chen Yuncheng’s eyelashes twitched a little as he said to Long Zhan Yu, “Officer Long, smoke less.”

Long Zhanyu’s slender fingers still held the cigarette he bit with his lips.

Chen Yuncheng smiled and continued, “If you smoke too much, you will grow old quickly. It’s a pity that you have such a face.”

Long Zhanyu snorted coldly, turned his face away and said, “You don’t know good stuffs.”

Chen Yuncheng stepped out of his car, and raised his hand to help him close the door, “Officer Long, take care.”

As Long Zhanyu drove away, Chen Yun Cheng returned to his kiosk and did nothing but tidy up the containers and was thinking about what to have for dinner when another car pulled up in front of his shop.

Chen Yuncheng put down the things in his hand, and leaned against the counter to look outside.

It was a black car. After it stopped, the back door opened, and a middle-aged man in his 40s stepped out. The man was a little fat, but he was tall. He looked tall and strong, giving people a sense of oppression.

He got out of the car and walked straight toward Chen Yuncheng, showing a smile with little sincerity and said, “Yuncheng, it’s been a long time.”

“Yong ge,” Chen Yuncheng smiled back, “It’s really been a long time since I saw you.”

Zhang Wenyong went all the way to the door of the store, stopped in front of the counter, looked at Chen Yuncheng’s small kiosk, and asked, “You have some buyer here?”

Chen Yuncheng said, “Not bad.”

Zhang Wenyong chuckled and smiled, looking grim, and then said, “Then the business is probably good, it’s more profitable than hanging out with the brothers, right?”

Chen Yuncheng said, “It’s not profitable, it’s just a peace of mind.”

Zhang Wenyong’s eyes fell on his face, and he said, “You are quite stable. Have you ever thought about how well Anlin’s life has been in the past two years?”

Chen Yuncheng did not speak.

Zhang Wenyong then burst into laughter. He reached out across the counter and patted Chen Yuncheng on the shoulder, saying, “I have good news for you, Guan Anlin is out.”

Chen Yuncheng looked very calm, “Really?”

Zhang Wenyong looked at him, and stopped laughing, pretending to be surprised, “Why are you unhappy? Before he went in, he always regarded you as his best brother.”

Chen Yuncheng smiled lightly, “Of course, I’m happy for him.”

Zhang Wenyong said, “Since you are happy, don’t just talk about it, let’s go. I arranged to pick up Anlin tonight, and now I’m here to pick you up.”

Chen Yuncheng didn’t answer him immediately.

Zhang Wenyong put one arm on the counter and said, “What? You are not going to show some respect even when Yong ge came in person?”

“It’s not that,” Chen Yuncheng said, “Of course, I have to go to Anlin’s welcome party, Yong ge wait for a moment, I will follow you after I clean up the kiosk and close the door.”

Zhang Wenyong took two steps away from the counter, lit a cigarette and stood smoking on the side of the road. He looked at Chen Yuncheng’s dilapidated kiosk and sneered.

Chen Yuncheng turned off the TV, locked the container of tobacco and alcohol, and then went outside, standing on tiptoe and pulling down the shutter.

During this process, Zhang Wenyong kept smoking a cigarette and watched him from the side.

After he finished everything, Chen Yuncheng said to Zhang Wenyong, “Let’s go, Yong ge.”

Zhang Wenyong raised his chin towards the car door, “Get in.”

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