Category: What To Do, My Boss Wants To Chase My Roommate (Page 4 of 6)

Ning Yiheng was really angry.

One second he was able to smile and apologize to my blind date, gently explaining the reason why he was taking me away, and the next second he faced me with a stern face, and his air pressure was so low that it made me shiver.

I’ve never seen Ning Yiheng this angry. Even when he used to be insulted by his competitors buying black materials before, he was able to be as impassive as a log.

When I realized this, it seemed to be too late.

I sat tremblingly in the passenger seat, not daring to utter a single breath.

My boss had a gloomy face as he drove in silence without saying a word since I got into the car.

I have been taken by Ning Yiheng on business trips many times before, but as a staff member, I basically didn’t show up. I mainly helped Ning Yiheng handle his work. This was the first time I have participated in a business banquet.

Heaven knows why Ning Yiheng didn’t bring a secretary this time.

I have never done secretarial work, I can only deal with some simple paperwork.

After being led to a high-end social occasion, I suddenly became a little overwhelmed. I followed Ning Yiheng from behind and watched him execute meaningful glances.

Fortunately, Ning Yiheng can handle it all by himself.

This kind of banquet was still social-oriented, Ning Yiheng wasn’t a talkative person, and it was rare to talk a little more on this occasion.

He was soon surrounded by guests at the banquet. I simply couldn’t interrupt or mustn’t interrupt at all. No one paid attention to me, so I was shoved outside the crowd.

Many of them were businessmen with children. They obviously want to create opportunities for these young people.

I’ve been staring at Ning Yiheng and didn’t dare to get distracted. I watched him exchange names with several rich ladies.

Ning Yiheng has a successful career, is single and unmarried, and his appearance is also first-class. In their eyes, he is like a delicious cake.

This can’t be regarded as a business banquet. I’m afraid they are all here for blind dates. I cursed and felt disgusted.

Forget it, I myself went on a blind date in confusion. I’m not qualified to judge Ning Yiheng.

Although Ning Yiheng specifically brought me here, I actually couldn’t help him much. I was hung aside and wasn’t in the mood to eat pastries, so I stared at Ning Yiheng chat with others.

As I was resentfully watching Ning Yiheng being introduced to who knows how many girls, my shoulder was suddenly gently tapped by someone.

I turned my head and saw a face very similar to Ning Yiheng’s.

I subconsciously glanced at Ning Yiheng, who was too busy socializing to look my way. When I turned my head back, Ning Yiheng #2 in front of me was staring at me with a smirk.

At first glance, this man looked similar to Ning Yiheng, but on closer inspection, he was completely different. He wore metal-framed glasses, had a tear mole under his eye and his eyes were slender. His appearance was a bit more refined compared to Ning Yiheng’s.

The man’s smile carried a bit of teasing and flirtation. Ning Yiheng would never have the same smile on his face.

“You’re Xiu Xiu?” He chuckled softly and spoke before me, “I’ve known about you for a long time.”

Eh, there’s an inexplicable greasy feeling.

It was very uncomfortable to listen to him. I ignored what he called me. Out of courtesy, I asked cautiously, “Hello, I am Mr. Ning’s secretary. May I ask you¹Polite/formal address to someone.…”

“My surname is also Ning, which Mr. Ning are you talking about?” He winked at me, his gaze nakedly sizing me up, “You’re not his secretary, there’s no way his secretary doesn’t know me.”

Speechless, I didn’t like his pretentious joke of a humor.

I struggled to organize my words, and before I could think of a way to answer him without being rude, he held my hand further.

The man in front of me looked far too frivolous, and I forcedly resisted myself not to shake his hand away.

His surname was also Ning, and his appearance was somewhat similar to Ning Yiheng’s. I guessed that he was probably a relative of Ning Yiheng. I didn’t want to offend him, nor did I want to get Ning Yiheng into trouble over such a trivial matter.

It’s not like you’re going to lose a piece of meat by having your hand touched by a man.

“My brother is a very boring person, you might as well follow me.” The man said, “I know more than him and can do more than him.”

It turned out to be Ning Yiheng’s didi… Why did he come to poach me?

I declined politely: “Mr. Ning, I’m sorry. I’m very satisfied with my current treatment, and I have no intention of changing jobs at present.”

Ning Yiheng’s didi snorted and said, “Change jobs? Do you think I’m talking to you about work?”

Me: …

It seemed like he was sexually harassing me, no, he must be sexually harassing me.

I subconsciously thought he was straight— Now all those flirty gestures of his would make sense.

It took me a while to figure it out, and the blood all over my body rushed to my face. I waved my other hand in a panic and said, “Y-you…You misunderstood, boss and I aren’t, not…”

Ning Yiheng’s didi narrowed his eyes, his fingers gently rubbed my palm, and said, “This reaction of yours is really cute, why are you still blushing? No wonder my brother is full of Xiu Xiu.”

Me: …

What? Ning Yiheng is full of Xiu Xiu? What does he mean? Xiu Xiu— Isn’t that me? Would there be another person named Xiu Xiu?

Ten thousand question marks flew through my head, but none of my doubts were the point at the moment.

I was so embarrassed that my forehead was sweating, I never thought in my life that I would encounter workplace sexual harassment at a time like this. I suddenly didn’t know what to do.

Right at this moment, Ning Yiheng somehow walked behind his didi‘s back and gripped his didi‘s arm that was holding my hand.

Ning Yiheng’s veins were exposed on the back of his hands. His face was still calm, but his tone wasn’t so kind, “Ning Wanyu, what are you doing to my employee?”

Ning Wanyu’s expression stiffened, and then he retracted his hand and said with a smile, “Can’t I go around? Seeing that your employee was very cute, I just wanted to say a few more words.”

Ning Lianyu bit the word “employee” very heavily, provoking Ning Yiheng that he almost didn’t hold his face.

Ning Yiheng didn’t talk nonsense with him. He grabbed my fingers and heavily twirled my fingers where Ning Wanyu had touched them.

“Our work is over.” Ning Yiheng said with a stern face, “I’ll take you home.”

Ning Wanyu didn’t care about Ning Yiheng’s gloomy face. He hooked my other hand again and said, “Don’t go, it’s rare for us brothers to see each other once. Don’t you want to have a drink before leaving?”

“Xiu Xiu just told me that he doesn’t like men who can’t drink.”

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I swear I never said I don’t like men who can’t drink.

No, I never said I liked men at all.

When I booked a hotel and swiped the card door with great difficulty while carrying the drunken Ning Yiheng, there was absolutely no joy in being relieved from work. My heart was mixed, and my mind was full of Ning Wanyu’s words.

Ning Yiheng usually pretends to be allergic to alcohol when he goes to banquets. Why was he so impulsive this time?

What a childish ghost! With so many people watching, he even punched Ning Wanyu in the face.

Ning Wanyu was obnoxious and vulgar. He didn’t care that his glasses were smashed by his brother, and he even returned them to Ning Yiheng to smooth things over—

But I still don’t have a good impression of him. He made this farce, and he was still holding on to the broken glasses to watch the joke between me and my boss.

No matter how slow or stupid I was, I could still see that Ning Yiheng’s childish behavior was for my sake.

But right now, Ning Yiheng was so drunk that he couldn’t wake up, leaving me, a sober person, alone to care for him while letting my imagination run wild.

As I stumbled through the corridor, Ning Yiheng, who was leaning on my shoulder, lifted his head.

Ning Yiheng woke up.

Ning Yiheng had always been like this. He falls asleep quickly and wakes up quickly. I wasn’t sure if he was awake now, but I didn’t dare talk to him at all.

My brain was in chaos, and I didn’t even know how to face him.

I just pretended he was still asleep. I was about to move forward when he grabbed me by the shoulders and pressed me heavily against the wall.

He was so strong that it vibrated right through my chest. He didn’t say a word as he watched me silently in the darkness.

My nervous heartbeat mingled with his ragged breathing, getting louder and louder.

I gulped and said, “Bo…”

Before I finished my words, Ning Yiheng pinched my chin and kissed me fiercely.

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Jie Jie: Oh, oh, oh! :blobaww:

It took me and Li Xiaoming a long time to explain that I was neither drunk nor crazy but simply wanted to go on a blind date for him.

Li Xiaoming eventually cast a grave look at me and said, “Cheng-ge, don’t force yourself.”

“And never ever do anything immoral.”

Me: …

Forget it, I’ve been really tired lately and I’m too lazy to explain myself clearly to him, so I’ll let him think that I’m suggesting this because I wanted to talk about my girlfriend.

I said, “You’re my junior, my best friend, and my roommate. Can I not take care of you? Besides, you’re even going on a blind date, don’t you want the perfect attendance award?”

Li Xiaoming immediately said, “Then what about your perfect attendance ah?”

Me: …

What do I care about a perfect attendance?

—Damn it, I really do care. Perfect attendance is also money.

Heaven and earth can tell how much I have paid for Ning Yiheng and Li Xiaoming, but I have become the unhappiest person among them.

Li Xiaoming’s side was clear. Although he wasn’t very willing to trouble me, he was really unable to refuse because of my kindness. Thus, he had to suspiciously turn his head to go to work and also instructed me to be sure to mess this blind date.

We’re all adults. They should be able to understand the situation of being forced by parents to go on a blind date.

But Ning Yiheng’s side didn’t understand.

Not two minutes after I asked for leave from the HR, the department manager returned to make a special call to inform me: Boss didn’t give approval.

I didn’t expect this matter to get stuck with Ning Yiheng. My heart was utterly bitter. He didn’t know the pain in my heart at all, nor did he know that I was trying to help him.

Out of respect for my own little brother, I didn’t want to talk to Ning Yiheng on the phone, so I took the trouble to talk to the department manager. To put it bluntly, I wouldn’t come to work.

The manager was caught in the middle and got annoyed by me, and took the trouble to transfer the call directly to Ning Yiheng.

What should come can’t be avoided. The moment I heard Ning Yiheng’s voice, the New Year’s Eve’s familiar sense and unknown feelings flooded me again.

God ah, Jade Emperor, Tathagata Buddha, Jesus, or Virgin Mary, please any gods, come and save me from this strange me now.

Ning Yiheng was very angry, Ning Yiheng was very angry.

Through the layer of the receiver, I could feel the anger in his words, “Cheng Huai Xiu, without my permission, you can’t ask for leave. Immediately come to work, now.”

Was he angry because he suspected that I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to miss work?

I could only lie and say, “Boss, I’m really sorry. If my performance has to be deducted because of this, I’m willing to bear the consequences.”

“I have to go meet my blind date, otherwise, there’s no way to tell my family.”

I didn’t want to tell Ning Yiheng such a lie, but I had no other way.

Ning Yiheng fell silent.

He sighed and said, “I thought your family had already…”

“Forget it,” His tone was sour, “There’s a business banquet I’m going to take you to in the evening, what time do you finish? I’ll pick you up.”

I have mixed feelings in my heart. The joy of provoking Ning Yiheng to make such a big fire but he still unexpectedly took the initiative to take me out to see the world. Most people definitely don’t have this opportunity. Sadly, I have already decided to keep my distance from Ning Yiheng.

Ning Yiheng is really a good person, but me and my dirrty little brother really don’t deserve his kindness to me.

I think I’m a smart employee, but I really can’t handle Ning Yiheng.

I can only do things to the best of my ability.

I said mournfully, “Boss, there’s no need to delay your trip for me. Why don’t you… let Li Xiaoming accompany you.”

Ghost knows how I got that sentence out of my mouth.

Ning Yiheng: …

I continued, “Li Xiaoming, this person’s character is a bit explosive, but he doesn’t have a bad heart. Once you guys get along for a long time…”

Ning Yiheng directly cut the phone call.

Oh, I also meant well.

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On the way to meet my blind date, I told Dage about the blind date I substituted for my roommate, to which Dage reacted very flatly.

Since I became weird, I have been unable to look directly at Dage, who has always been very good to me.

Out of selfishness, I kept my mouth shut about my deeper troubles, and only talked to him about irrelevant things.

Dage: Why did you go on a blind date for your roommate?

I grasped the subway’s handrail with one hand and staggered as the subway started.

I said: I want to help him.

I said: I also want to make them happy.

Because of my guilty conscience, I dare not mention Ning Yiheng’s existence. I can only vaguely say “they.”

But I couldn’t help but want to tell Dage the truth.

I said: Dage, have you ever had the experience of having that kind of thoughts for someone else’s lover?

Dage: …

Dage: I didn’t dare to confirm it before.

Dage: But I feel as if I have experience it now.

Combined with the information from our previous chats, I strongly suspect that Dage has encountered a scumbag who cheated on his feelings.

Dage was really miserable. It seems that Dage was also a bitter man. If I have time, I must persuade him to let go promptly.

I didn’t have time to ask Dage’s experience in detail, the subway arrived at the station.

The girl I met had a pretty good appearance and personality. I felt comfortable talking to her. We chatted and went to see a movie on the way, but the movie was really boring. I almost fell asleep in the movie theater.

We had dinner together in the evening and we were ready to part without hard feelings.

I don’t feel anything about her, and she doesn’t seem to be interested in me either. When we met, we went through the formalities in a polite manner to have something to report back.

The girl was nice, and we got along well today. It was all my fault.

We both walked out of the restaurant together, and I absentmindedly said a few more polite words to her before I finally sort of understood the matter.

I didn’t feel the joy of spending an afternoon with a girl. I just felt relieved and wanted to go home and sort out my thoughts.

I was very disappointed that even though I was able to spend time with real girl today, my situation wasn’t showing a single sign of improvement.

It was at this moment that a Lamborghini swaggered to a halt in front of us, its body glowing with a dazzling light from the neon lights of the stores around us.

At this time, I was standing on the edge of the curb. I just swept away a shared bicycle but my butt hadn’t even sat on the seat yet.

Rao was my blind date with extremely high emotional intelligence. At this moment, she failed to control her expression management, and didn’t hold back from staring at the Lamborghini that stopped us.

The window of the Lamborghini was rolled down, revealing Ning Yiheng’s face inside.

I was so shocked that I couldn’t even close my mouth.

I remembered that Ning Yiheng’s cars were all rather simple and low-key, but this time, it was like a peac0ck opening its screen. Almost no one couldn’t notice his beautiful luxury car, and it even swaggered directly in front of me.

I stammered and said, “Bo… Boss, hello.”

“Get in the car,” Ning Yiheng said, “I said I would take you to the banquet.”

My brain crashed, “Boss, this…”

“Don’t let me say it a second time,” Ning Yiheng said impatiently, “Cheng Huai Xiu, get in the car.”

—“Have you ever had a situation where your ** got out of control?”

The moment he heard my words, Li Xiaoming was petrified.

Li Xiaming: ?

God, I can’t believe I actually asked such a thing out loud.

Li Xiaoming was silent for a moment before answering me. “Cheng-ge, when you said **, it’s that ** I understand?”

I solemnly nodded.

Li Xiaoming said, “Why don’t… You go to the hospital to have it checked?”

I panicked and said, “No, you misunderstood. It’s that I have a friend who came to me to complain about these things, so I came to ask you.”

With an expression that ‘I understand’, Li Xiaming echoed with me quite perfunctorily, “Oh, oh, oh, friend. I understand, then that friend—but seriously, I recommend that you… Uh, no, your friend, if they have any problem, they must go to the hospital without delay.”

Me: …

Forget it, I’ll still continue talking about it.

I said, “It’s that friend of mine ah. He, he seems to be normal again as soon as his ** sees a man…”

Li Xiaming didn’t show much surprise and said, “Is it possible that your friend is gay?”

“It doesn’t matter. Society is very tolerant nowadays. You… Your friend must be brave and face their own heart by all means. What sexual orientation, it’s okay.”

“No way,” I immediately denied. “No, that’s not the point. It’s that, my friend, as soon as he sees someone else’s boyfriend, he just…”

Li Xiaoming’s brows wrinkled and said to me seriously, “Cheng-ge, no matter what, you can’t be a mistress ya.”

This sentence stung me deeply.

I felt my lips tremble. I tried my best to calm myself down and said, “If you were the original spouse, what would you think?”

“Although it’s unlikely that I’ll encounter this situation,” Li Xiaoming blinked softly at me, he grinned as he raised his palm and eventually slowly clenched it into a fist, “I’d—castrate him.”

“Haha, just kidding la. I won’t do anything illegal but if someone makes a move on someone I like,” Li Xiaoming pulled his fist without changing his face, squeezing it so hard that his knuckles crunched, “I won’t let him get away with it anyway.”

What a beautiful face, what a cruel heart.

My crotch instantly went cold.

Colder than my heart.

I supported myself against the sink and my legs were nearly unable to stand. I said stuffily, “Xiao Ming, I’ve known you for so long, how come I haven’t seen you be in a relationship with someone else?”

Li Xiaoming said as if it wasn’t a big deal, “I’m most annoyed with those who come over because of my appearance.”

“But people are visual creatures, so it’s good for me to maintain my current state.

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I have to keep my distance from Ning Yiheng, I can’t make another mistake. Maybe it was just a momentary confusion on my little brother. There’s still room for everything to be salvaged.

Li Xiaoming told me not to talk about it, but I didn’t dare to confirm whether he was telling the truth or not. I didn’t believe that he really wanted to be single for the rest of his life.

But Ning Yiheng was still my boss after all. I can’t be too indifferent. I can’t return to look at his WeChat picture the way it was. I just lost the enthusiasm to make friends with him.

I no longer ask myself to do something for his emotional problems, as long as I don’t make mistakes.

I’m so worried that I can’t even read my favorite Doujin literature anymore, and the original anime has become tasteless like chewing wax.

The conversation with Li Xiaoming didn’t ease my inner pain.

Late at night, when I was tossing and turning and had trouble sleeping, I posted a thread on an anonymous relationship forum.

I roughly described what had happened to me, my boss, and my roommate, hoping to get some ideas from netizens to solve the problem.

But most of the netizens came to see the drama. They only replied 666¹It means awesome/amazing. and “Hahaha”.

A small group of extremely homophobic netizens thought I was gay and made a series of unfriendly remarks to me and my family. There was also a small group of netizens who firmly believed that Ning Yiheng liked me.

The netizens’ focus and brains were just too outrageous. There were even some who thought that Ning Yiheng was just coveting my cat so he deliberately seduced me and asked me to be careful if my roommate colluded with my boss.

In the end, they argued over whether or not to leave the cat in the rental house when going home for the Chinese New Year.

I stroked the back of Mimi, who I had left in the rental house for an entire annual vacation, and silently closed the webpage.

As long as I didn’t think about it, the problem didn’t exist.

I decided to let it be for the time being.

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After I talked to Li Xiaoming in the toilet, in the second week of his declaration of singleness, I woke up early to wash up and found Li Xiaoming skillfully wearing a tie in front of the mirror.

Li Xiaoming was a pretty good-looking man. He can wear anything on a clothing rack and looks a lot more handsome in a suit.

My mood still hasn’t improved, but to see him rarely dressed so formally, I reluctantly cheered up and joked, “It’s only been a few days since we went to work. Are you going on a date ah?”

It can’t be a date with Ning Yiheng, right? I silently added in my heart, feeling more and more lost.

That’s why I don’t easily believe people who say they are determined not to fall in love. A large part of people will change their minds later. They just haven’t met the right person.

Li Xiaoming wasn’t in a good mood either. He said listlessly, “My jie forced me to go on a blind date, so I can’t help but go.”

“I’ll just deal with it casually and forget about it—Sigh, I have to waste a day off.”

Oh, so it was Li Yingning who forced him to go on a blind date. I thought it was to go on a date with Ning Yiheng.

Excuse me? Blind date? Li Xiaoming is going on a blind date?

I was greatly shocked and said, “Xiao Ming, aren’t you that…”

Li Xiaming stopped tying his tie and looked at me doubtfully, “I’m what?”

As far as I know, Li Xiaoming would never dare to confess his sexual orientation to Li Yingning. I know how important Li Yingning is to Li Xiaoming. He won’t disobey Li Yingning’s ideas at all, even if it was a blind date, he would have to bite the bullet.

But for Li Xiaoming, with his character, he would never do such a thing as cheating on marriage, even if it was just to deal with his jiejie’s face. How difficult it would be during this period of time?

I hesitated again and again, and finally said, “Does boss know about this?”

Li Xiaoming yawned and didn’t dwell on my previous words as he continued to tie his tie while saying, “I asked him for leave yesterday.”

Since Ning Yiheng knew about this, what would he think?

I don’t know if it was the aftermath of my little brother’s lack of skill, but I’ve also grieved over the passing of spring and the coming of autumn, and I began to feel sorry for Ning Yiheng’s situation.

With a flash of inspiration, I suddenly thought of a foolproof plan. I gritted my teeth, and said “Have you guys seen each other’s photos?”

Li Xiaoming said, “Not yet.”

I said, “Then I’ll go for you, Xiao Ming.”

Even though I was indeed thinking about Li Xiaoming and Ning Yiheng, I wasn’t completely without selfish motives. I also wanted to try and take this opportunity to have normal contact with girls and finally confirm if it was my own problem or not.

“This way you’ll be able to deal with your jie and you won’t have to waste a day’s vacation.”

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Author’s Note:

Xiao Cheng will soon recognize himself. Can boss, who learned that Xiao Cheng went on a blind date, really sit back and do nothing?

/Readers who have read the original short story, please rest assured, that it’s not the same as the original plot.

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Jie Jie: The short story the author probably meant was this.

In the end, I couldn’t figure out what Nin Yiheng was thinking.

I still think he might prefer Li Xiaoming, but… Forget it, I can’t figure it out. I’m even too embarrassed to ask and I don’t know where to start.

I can’t just say to my boss, “Boss, since you taught me how to write a novel, you’ve got me in the mood for spring like a teenager who just got into contact with a certain website, so you’ve got to expound the Buddhist teachings to me.”

For the time being, I still can’t believe that I can give up the goddess in my cloud file storage so easily, turn my head, and like men. Moreover, I even regarded my ignorant little brother that day as a misunderstanding.

Ning Yiheng didn’t mention the lunar New Year’s Eve afterwards. His behavior was nothing unusual but on that day, it was as if my little brother had been bewitched during the night. It was just like I had a guilty conscience. I always felt like the way he looked at me was wrong.

It must be that I’ve been sleeping in the same bed with a gay for too long which caused me to become paranoid myself.

I had a lot of things to do for Chinese New Year. I didn’t have time to calm down and think about my relationship with him. I had to accompany my parents to pay New Year’s visits to various relatives’ homes.

Every day was filled with endless banquets and strings of relatives. Ning Yiheng didn’t have to follow me to see my relatives. He strolled around by himself and waited for me to come home every day.

That’s right, my boss waited for me to come home like a beloved wife. He even tied an apron to help our family cook dinner every night.

Ning Yiheng bought my mom a pair of jade bracelets and gave my dad a set of fishing gear. They were small items that didn’t cost much in his words but in my eyes, who didn’t want to be indebted to Ning Yiheng, had already started to feel pain in my wallet.

Fishing gear was the pink tax¹It refers to the tendency for products marketed specifically toward women to be more expensive than those marketed toward men. of a retired old man like my dad, who had nothing to do. My dad didn’t say much about it, but his heart had actually been ruthlessly grasped by Ning Yiheng.

My parents were very satisfied with him, and I felt incredibly horrified in my heart.

Fortunately, holidays always pass by quickly. In the blink of an eye, my annual leave bottomed out. We returned to City B on the seventh day of the first month and officially resumed work on the eighth day.

Ning Yiheng didn’t return home throughout the year, so he had to go back and see them. He got off the plane and went back to his parent’s house.

I was relieved when Ning Yiheng left; I worked energetically. As soon as I got home, I shoveled clean Mimi’s cat litter box and swept its house.

After a busy day, my heart sank into endless emptiness.

I shut Mimi in the living room, locked my bedroom door, drew the curtains, and turned off all the lights in the room.

I took a bath, changed clothes, and opened my laptop.

I moved my mouse, clicked on the folder named Study Materials that existed in my cloud file storage, and found the Asian category in there.

Two minutes later, I closed my cloud file storage.

I covered my face, closed the laptop, and lit a cigarette in silence.

After smoking a cigarette, I opened the laptop again.

I clicked on the cloud file storage for office use and found the photos of the company’s activities. The computer screen’s light dazzled my eyes.

I zoomed and zoomed in on Ning Yiheng in the group photo and solemnly moved the tissue box on the table to pull out tissues.

Fifteen minutes later, I threw away the balled tissue, stared vacantly at the ceiling, and lit another cigarette.

With regard to myself, there was a total of good news and bad news.

The good news was that my little brother hadn’t malfunctioned, and the bad news was that it only reacted to Ning Yiheng.

Having been straight for over twenty years, I really couldn’t accept this reality.

I shook the cigarette ashes, looked at Ning Yiheng’s face on the screen that was enlarged to a blur, and once again covered my face indignantly.

F*ck, how can Ning Yiheng be so handsome.

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I didn’t have Ning Yiheng’s personal photos, so I stared at the company’s activity photos for a night.

These photos were taken very casually but Ning Yiheng’s face could really be a hit that the passerby tourists in the photo also couldn’t take their eyes off him.

I built a new folder dedicated to him and spent the night silently cropping all the photos of the activities where he appeared as a single person in the storage.

I must be crazy, I turned my hand and dragged that folder into the Recycle Bin.

The next day, I insisted on working at my workstation with dark circles under my eyes. My head was muddled, and all I could think about was Ning Yiheng.

To bend or not to bend, that was the question.

I Baidu-ed²This is like Google. my problem and was quickly diagnosed by the Internet as having suspected cancer of the reproductive system.

F*ck, who needed to Baidu this problem other than me ah?

No, I can’t accept it. It must be because I’ve had too little contact with girls, and I’ve never been in love, and Ning Yiheng was just too good-looking that I can even ignore my gender.

Besides, Ning Yiheng might still like Li Xiaoming. I clearly saw them getting close that day, my eyes wouldn’t lie.

When I thought of this possibility, I couldn’t even slack off.

I was in a bad mood.

My work efficiency was greatly reduced and I dragged on all morning without finishing the contents of the plan. I took advantage of my lunch break and touched Li Xiaoming’s workstation.

I was suffocating into madness, I couldn’t think of any clues. I must have someone to talk to.

I pulled Li Xiaoming and hid in the men’s restroom. I looked around to make sure there was no one in the restroom and I could speak freely. Then I turned to the sink, looked at my haggard self in the mirror, and said, “Xiao Ming, I have a question I want to ask you.”

Of course, I dare not reveal too much to Li Xiaoming. He was my colleague and was ambiguously involved with Ning Yiheng. But the only people I was able to make friends with were him and First List Dage.

However, after I inexplicably blushed last time, I suddenly didn’t want to talk to First List Dage about anything Ning Yiheng-related, and I had no one to talk to except Li Xiaoming.

I can only do some artistic processing not letting him see it but also talk about my depression.

But before that—

“How did you know that I write doujin novels?”

Li Xiaoming was so surprised that his mouth turned into an O, “Ya,³This is similar to ‘Ah’, expressing surprise or doubt. he told you?”

Recently, my life has been so overly exciting that I almost forgot about it under the successive blows. But as soon as I saw Li Xiaoming, the shame of oblivion began to attack me.

It was too shameful. There was no better way to die⁴To die in embarrassment.in society than to let people in reality circulate my novel.

Li Xiaoming revealed a worried look and said, “Sorry, Cheng-ge. When I went to your computer to copy files that day, you forgot to close the web page, so I looked at it a few more times… But I only told the boss, I didn’t tell anyone else about it.”

“I don’t know much about 2D anime or anything, but your short text was really well written. Just the part where the Cat Girl chased after Princess Star to confess, she suffered three car accidents, two amnesia, and a misdiagnosis of cancer were all—”

“Stop!” I blushed with shame and I couldn’t hate to dig out my ears. “Please, don’t talk about it. I also don’t care about this.”

Li Xiaoming really doesn’t understand Cat Star. Obviously the cat-eyed girl and the little alien princess star… Forget it. As long as he doesn’t read out my plot, I’m thankful.

I adjusted my stiff expression and said, “Actually, I just asked that without thinking, I don’t care about that. I have another question for you.”

“Have you ever had a situation where your *** got out of control?”

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Author’s note:

Xiu Xiu is about to wake up.

My mind went blank and I finally stopped filling my head with uncontrollable imaginations as the violent heartbeat sounded in my ears again. I knew it was my heartbeat but I couldn’t figure out why it was beating like that.

I closed my eyes.

Yes, I closed my eyes the next moment I heard Ning Yiheng say that he would kiss me.

At this very moment, the blasting sound of fireworks roared through my ears. Ning Yiheng didn’t kiss me. He quickly released his vice-like grip on my hands and I immediately reacted by opening my eyes.

The new year had arrived, and the residents coincidentally set off fireworks in their courtyard. Countless fireworks followed the starry sky, and the brilliant light of fireworks illuminated Ning Yiheng’s cheek.

And I sat stunned on Ning Yiheng’s lap.

Ning Yiheng was a bit nervous. He spread his palm and blinked at me restlessly, “Do you understand?”

Cheng Huai Xiu, are you crazy! You actually closed your eyes for a man’s vague kiss!

Wuwu,¹(Onom.) For sobbing or crying. the stupid way I closed my eyes was all seen by Ning Yiheng.

He was still explaining to me in all seriousness. “It’s not that you’re not a good writer, it’s just… I think that it lacks some sexual tension.”

“Humans are creatures that follow desires. Love is a derivative of desire, and your protagonists only convey love in dialogue but the desire can’t be seen.”

I was in absolutely no mood to listen to his long-winded words. I was still immersed in the memories of Ning Yiheng’s false claim to kiss me earlier.

Worst of all, with all this tossing and turning, my little brother was saluting Ning Yiheng in an untimely manner, regardless of my current eagerness to keep a low profile, and kept reminding me of how ridiculous my actions had just been.

Fortunately, I wore a lot today.

I shook my head, trying to calm myself down a bit. Then, I immediately remembered a crucial question.

I said, “How did you know I was writing a novel?”

Ning Yiheng fell silent.

I hurriedly crawled out of his arms and picked up my thermos cup along with it. I didn’t want him to see my embarrassment, so I sat back to my original position and propped up my knees with my elbows to shield my restless little brother.

A rustling sound came from behind me, Ning Yiheng stood up and walked to my side.

“Li Xiaoming told me.” Ning Yiheng’s tone was quite calm, “I was curious about what you wrote, so I went to read it.”

The shadow of First List Dage flashed across my mind.

Impossible. Tis is absolutely impossible, what am I imagining?

Ning Yiheng already had a good relationship with Li Xiaoming to the point of sharing my secret. There was no reason to fool around with me again.

All of his actions just now were either playing with me and wanting to see my blunder or he did it deliberately because I said the wrong thing when confronted with Li Xiaoming’s issue before.

At that time, he thought I was jealous of Li Xiaoming and thought I liked him, so he intentionally tried to test me…

My head started to knot.

What if he didn’t do it on purpose? What if he was just simply trying to teach me how to write novels?

Ning Yiheng usually teaches me a lot about how to change copywriting and change projects. What’s wrong with changing Doujin?

Why did I have to think so complicatedly?

No, I believe that Ning Yiheng is a good person. He definitely wouldn’t be wicked enough to want to make fun of me.

It must be like this. I’m a loser with neither ambition nor any merits. No matter what Ning Yiheng’s intentions were, the only thing that was impossible was for him to be interested in me.

Then when I closed my eyes in the confusion just now, wouldn’t that be even more of a misunderstanding for him?

But then again, how did Li Xiaoming know about my hobby? Why did he even secretly tell Ning Yiheng about it?

I suddenly felt a sense of helplessness that friends weren’t as good as lovers.

I was dejected, but I don’t know if I was dejected because Li Xiaoming leaked my secret or because the two were so close.

I mastered my ability to quickly shift my emotions when I was little, so my threshold for happiness was shallow. I never took the initiative to think about unhappy things and I learned to change my train of thought to tell myself to be happier.

But at this point in time, I couldn’t make myself happy in any way.

Sadness made my little brother lower his head.

I couldn’t understand what was wrong with me. I wasn’t in the mood to look at the stars at all.

I considered my words, thinking about how to politely tell him that I wanted to go home right now. I said, “Boss, I want to…”

But Ning Yiheng said, “Cheng Huai Xiu, Happy New Year.”

I swallowed my saliva and swallowed back my initial words. “… Happy New Year.”

Ning Yiheng extended his hand to me and said, “Let’s go home?”

Under the light of the fireworks, his pupils also flickered. The tip of his fair nose was covered with a thin layer of red.

I have to say, Ning Yiheng was really good-looking at this time.

If the me from a few months ago knew that I think my boss was good-looking now, he would’ve thought I was crazy.

The same, familiar absent-mindedness as when Ning Yiheng dragged me into his arms swept over me once more, causing me to start getting confused again.

I mentally taught myself not to be enticed by him again and I must never close my eyes stupidly again.

Then I placed my hand on his.

Cough, boss had been sitting on the cold ground for so long. I was just worried that his legs were numb and wanted to pull him up.

Don’t think too much. Don’t think too much about it, self.

Ning Yiheng’s fingers quite were cold, but they were hot when they pinched my chin. Something must’ve gone wrong with me that even my sense of touch was confused.

It’s all Ning Yiheng’s fault.

I was originally all alone and carefree, his intervention ruined all my happiness.

“Boss, I’ll give you a hand.” In order to emphasize my intentions, or to hide my own guilt, I purposely mentioned it before yanking Ning Yiheng up. “If you’re tired from sitting, you can hold me for support.”

Ning Yiheng’s legs weren’t numb but he still grabbed my hand. I also didn’t shake him off. We just went home hand in hand one after another.

Ning Yiheng was in a pretty good mood. He didn’t mention what happened in the mountains but I was endlessly perturbed. Even when I was observing Mimi in the camera as usual, I couldn’t help but be in a daze.

When Ning Yiheng went to take a shower, I sat at the bedside and stared blankly at my phone screen. Then I received a WeChat from Dage.

Dage: You don’t have to worry about me, I’ve got it all figured out.

Dage: I tried to be a little more proactive today, but I backed out at the last minute. I’m really a cowardly man.

Dage: But it doesn’t matter, I will never let go anymore.

Dage: After today, I just want to love him more.

F*ck.

I blushed.

Cheng Huai Xiu, are you sick?! Dage confessed his deep love for the object of his affection, what are you blushing for ah!

I was so ashamed that I hammered my fist into the bedboard—Damn it, the bedboard was also too hard.

My hand hurt so much.

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Jie Jie: Bet you all wanted them to kiss so badly, right? Me too, when I read this back then :blobpeek:

I clearly heard the thumping of my heart hitting my chest, and the sound gradually overshadowed the sound of the wind in my ears and occupied my brain.

In a panic, I shifted my gaze to the night sky, looking at Orion in the sky with my mind preoccupied.

It did kind of look like a skirt, but also like a bow.

F*ck, what am I thinking about this for?

Besides, Ning Yiheng didn’t stay indoors where there was a heater. What does he have to do in this wilderness?

Obviously, I deliberately left him to get along with Li Xiaoming. How could he come out for a walk at this time and even come here?

I was full of doubts and nowhere to ask questions, and finally returned to the original question— Orion’s twitching robot image in my eyes turned into a twitching robot wearing a woman’s dress.

This reminded me of myself in a skirt when I was a child.

I didn’t want to be silent and make the atmosphere awkward, but I didn’t want to continue the topic just now. I ignored his previous words and said, “Boss, aren’t you cold?”

Ning Yiheng replied with a strong nasal voice, “Not cold.”

I don’t believe him, but I can’t say something like, ‘Boss, I know you’re very cold, so please go back to my heated house alone immediately and say more than ten words to Li Xiaoming on the way to make sure your relationship goes well.’

I said tactfully, “Boss, it’s very cold here. If you can’t stand it, you can go back first. I’m very frost-resistant. I’m here every year for New Year’s, but I’m afraid you…”

“Cheng Huai Xiu,” Ning Yiheng interrupted me and asked, “Have you ever been in love?”

I didn’t expect him to ask me these questions. I was taken aback, but I still told the truth, “No.”

Ning Yiheng paused for a moment, and then said, “Don’t you think that in this scene, with just the two of us sitting here, it’s a lot like…”

I caught his next words, “… A lot like a plot of a novel.”

I didn’t say everything, let alone the plot of a “romance” novel.

Today was a clear day, the sky was cloudless, and when I looked up, my eyes were full of starry sky.

I have also written such fanfiction. The two protagonists who originally admired each other expressed their intentions under the starry sky, which was both romantic and beautiful.

And this kind of beauty has never belonged to me. I come here alone every year, under the stars, and then walked home alone.

To this day, I also feel that those plots have nothing to do with me.

Ning Yiheng acquiesced to my statement, and continued, “It turns out that you have never been in love. No wonder when I read your novel before, I always felt that your relationship plot was almost nothing.”

I always felt that something was wrong, but I was anxious to know my problem, so I blurted out without even thinking about it, “What’s the difference?”

I have indeed been struggling with the description of emotional scenes for a long time— I have never been in love and have never been able to understand what real love is, so the emotional scenes written in my pen are also dry. The two characters don’t seem to be in love, but more like they are in a cringe-worthy conversation.

Ning Yiheng didn’t give me too much time to reflect on myself, nor did he directly point out my problem. Instead, he said, “If the characters in your stories were sitting here like the two of us, what would you write?”

I thought about it seriously and said, “They will talk endlessly about everything and then one of them will take the initiative to say ‘I love you’ to the other.”

“Is that all?” Ning Yiheng said.

I said, “That’s all, and then they’ll be together. After they are together, they can do what they need to do like any other couple— and then that’s the end of the story.”

However, Ning Yiheng said, “Before people fall in love, they can’t just say ‘I love you’.”

I don’t understand his idea. In my perception, holding hands, hugging, and kissing between couples can only be done after they become a couple.

The phrase “I love you” is the beginning of love. People must first express their minds before doing other things.

I said, “I don’t understand, I don’t know how to write it.”

Ever since Ning Yiheng inexplicably talked about Orion’s skirt, I’ve been afraid to look into his eyes because of the indescribable guilt in my heart. I stared at the sky blankly, but all I thought about was Ning Yiheng.

Ning Yiheng, however, didn’t explain my question further. I waited for a while, and when I saw that he hadn’t spoken, I couldn’t help but want to look at him. Before I could turn my head, he suddenly grabbed my waist.

Ning Yiheng’s fingers tightened and dragged me directly into his arms. I was startled by him.

Before I could react, I fell off the stone and sat on his lap.

I was imprisoned by Ning Yiheng, but my center of gravity was still unstable. I staggered, holding my thermos and my head plunged into Ning Yiheng’s shoulder.

Ning Yiheng said close to my ear, “I’ll teach you, Cheng Huai Xiu.”

His voice was low and magnetic, and his breathing swept my auricles warmly, causing me to panic and itch.

When did Ning Yiheng’s voice become so manly?

I never thought his voice would be so sexy before— So sexy that I’m obsessed with a man’s sexiness, I’m afraid I’m not some kind of demon!

I don’t think I’m gay!

But I didn’t immediately lose my armor, and I don’t lack countermeasures. I tried to recall Ning Yiheng’s voice when he called me to work overtime— This instantly cleared my confused head a little, and I finally stopped thinking how sexy his voice was.

I could still reasonably retort to him, “The character’s feelings have to be gradual, this is a bit abrupt, and I don’t approve of it.”

Ning Yiheng got very close and said, “Your character can talk, make friends, and then make physical contact just like the two of us. This is gradual.”

F*ck.

My brain filled with Ning Yiheng’s voice, and I meditated on “working overtime” for a while, and then on “this plan needs to be changed” for a while, trying to take back my thoughts that Ning Yiheng had messed up.

This method worked at first. I was able to wake up a little bit when I thought of work, but it failed after a long time. No matter how I thought about Ning Yiheng’s vicious face calling me to work overtime, it didn’t work.

I can’t help but feel endless sorrow in my heart. Can’t going to work make me feel pain anymore?

How could anyone love their boss like a family? It must be the sick leave and annual leave that made me stupid.

Even if Ning Yiheng didn’t speak, I couldn’t stop thinking about his breathing, his hand around my waist, and his sexy voice that couldn’t be sexier—

My thoughts are really getting gayer and gayer.

Ning Yiheng pulled a hand back and pinched my chin.

He pressed in step by step and bullied me. I couldn’t help leaning back until the back of my head was against the stone I had just sat on, and I couldn’t retreat.

Under the cold night sky, the stone was cold and hard, while the fingers pinching my chin were hot and soft.

It was clearly the winter season, but my sweat was already sticky and wrapped around Ning Yiheng’s fingers.

I said in gibberish, “This is not possible, I can’t write such a plot—”

Ning Yiheng tightened the hand wrapped around my waist, and the thermos in my hand fell off and rolled down along the hillside.

Ning Yiheng said, “I’m going to kiss you next, Cheng Huai Xiu.”

I watched Ning Yiheng hook his lips, and I started to laugh without holding back.

As I laugh, I felt like there was something wrong with me.

I laughed along ah.

It was weird that boss was happy and even I had become weird.

Seeing that we all drew a lot, Gan Yao also paid for his own divination. But his attitude towards love is purely playful, and he doesn’t care about it.

He was really engaged in feudal superstition or academic studies. He calculated whether he could be admitted as a graduate student, and the slip was quite ideal on the surface.

I feel that I haven’t figured out the calculations for half a day, but the old man who set up the stall made a lot of money.

I actually just wanted to have fun on this marriage draw lot, and I didn’t take it seriously.

I always felt that it was inappropriate for me to smile at this time, so I held back my smile and said, “Boss, the things on this aren’t credible. There’s a trash can over there, throw it away later.”

Ning Yiheng clenched the paper in his palm and said, “I’ve never seen anything like this before. Let me collect it for fun ba.”

… Ai, people in the city who have never seen the world, how can they treat this kind of thing like a treasure?

A few years ago, my mother saved a small box of marriage lots for me. If Ning Yiheng is interested, I can pack it and send it to him.

Ning Yiheng took my slip and didn’t say anything, but also asked me, “Cheng Huai Xiu, what were you laughing at just now?”

I’m actually a person who will tell the truth most of the time, but only this time I lied— Because I couldn’t find a reason to explain.

I said with hypocrisy, “It says I’ll live off a woman in the future.”

“Of course, I’m happy if someone kept me ah.”

Ning Yiheng: …

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The temple fair in the past few years has actually been very different, but after Ning Yiheng came along, the experience seemed to be different from before. I always like to stare at his curious expression, and I can’t tell why.

Maybe I just love to see his appearance of not having seen the world.

In this way, I took Ning Yiheng and the Li Xiaoming siblings to hang out for a day. When I was about to sit down for New Year’s Eve dinner, I remembered that I hadn’t responded to Dage’s message.

Dage’s situation seems to be quite tricky. The person he likes and the roommate of that person are unclear.

Based on my years of experience in reading Doujin literature, Dage looks like he has been involved in some kind of bloody love triangle.

I thought for a moment and replied: Dage, it’s best to carefully confirm his relationship with his roommate and not to be a spare tire.

Me: If he knows that you like him and he still wants to be ambiguous with his roommate, then don’t continue. You’re a very good person, and I hope you can treat yourself better.

This is really the most decent thing I have ever said in my life.

But Dage didn’t to reply me.

I don’t have the habit of stepping into the lunar New Year’s Eve with my family. I haven’t seen my parents watch the Spring Festival Gala since I was a child.

They pulled the neighbors to play mahjong together and they unexpectedly played all night.

This year, my brother and sister-in-law came back, and the people who played mahjong with them became my brother and sister-in-law. I can’t play with these things and don’t want to watch TV, so I sneaked to the hill on the back to watch the stars by myself.

When I first met Li Xiaoming, he followed me to see the stars out of curiosity. He couldn’t stand the boredom after watching for a while and fell asleep lying next to me. I had to carry him back in the middle of the night.

Because he slept in the wild in the middle of winter, Li Xiaoming took a full annual leave with a cold, and he never came to see the stars with me after that.

I’m happy to be alone and quiet. There are no annoying bugs in the wild in winter. I’m more frost-resistant and wear a lot of clothes.

When it was twelve o’clock, I could still see the fireworks flying out of the village.

At least during this period of time, the disturbances in the world have nothing to do with me.

When I finished my meal, I wrapped myself tightly as usual with cushions on the rocks in the back hill. I took a sip of hot water, holding a thermos cup to look up at the stars.

Li Xiaoming will be at my house talking to my parents for a while, it just so happens that Ning Yiheng was also there. This was a good time to cultivate feelings.

For some reason, when I looked up at the starry sky as quietly as before, I suddenly felt a little absent-minded.

My mind was full of Ning Yiheng’s affairs.

Maybe it was because I spent too much effort to set him up with Li Xiaoming recently that it was rare to have a little space of my own now, and my mind was also occupied by their affairs.

A cold wind came from the mountains, and I hugged the thermos bottle in my arms tightly. I heard the pressing sound of someone stepping on the dead branches behind me.

I turned my head and saw Ning Yiheng in the dim moonlight.

Ning Yiheng sat quietly next to my leg without saying a word.

I looked at his blurred side face and my throat went dry.

I said, “Boss, why did you come out?”

Ning Yiheng said, “I came out to get some air.”

He said again, “What are you looking at?”

“I’m looking at the stars.” I said, but my eyes looked at Ning Yiheng, “Look, doesn’t Orion looks like a twitching robot?”

Ning Yiheng: ?

Ning Yiheng looked at the starry sky and seriously observed the constellation, trying to understand my thoughts, and said, “Why a robot?”

I turned my head back, looked at Orion’s two “mechanical arms” intently, and said, “Because it looks very strong.”

Ning Yiheng: …

Ning Yiheng sighed and said, “I really can’t understand your way of thinking.”

“When I was a child, I was raised by my parents as a girl. Because I was a ‘sissy’ in the eyes of others, I was always bullied.” My thinking began to stretch and finally returned to my childhood. “At that time, I liked to lie on the ground and look at the stars, fantasizing that a robot with twisted arms could fall from the sky and beat the ass of the person who bullied me one by one.”

Ning Yiheng didn’t say anything, he was still looking at the Orion in the starry sky.

I unknowingly said a lot about myself. “When I was a child, I learned a lot by myself— Don’t think about it, think about it on the bright side, so I won’t be slandered by other people’s words.”

“When I started to deviate my thinking from the track, those guys couldn’t hurt me anymore.”

I rarely tell others about my past, including my parents. I don’t want them to feel burdened by the whims of the moment.

I’m now convinced that I am no longer a “sissy” and firmly believe that I’m a straight man.

And I haven’t taken all this seriously for a long time. Whenever there was a conflict, I could quickly reverse my thinking to another level that wouldn’t hurt me.

But talking about this to Ning Yiheng, it was indeed a bit over the line. It wasn’t crossing the line between straight men and gay men, but crossing the line between my personal standards of Cheng Huai Xiu.

I regret it a little bit. I don’t want Ning Yiheng to react to my trivial past.

“If the two arms are the twisted arms of a robot,” Ning Yiheng observed carefully for a long time, and finally coughed lightly— He was trying to approach my brain circuit to think, “Then it must be a robot in a skirt.”

“Cheng Huai Xiu, do you think it looks like that?”

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Author’s Note:

Boss ended up imitating Xiao Cheng’s brain circuit

In fact, when Ning Yiheng grabbed my hand, I didn’t think too much.

I thought he would grab my wrist or arm, but he chose the gayest way, and held my palm.

Forget it, just hold it. Everyone’s habits are different. It’s not easy for me to say more to the boss. Just don’t let Li Xiaoming see it.

Ning Yiheng’s fingers are very long and can wrap my hand in the palm of his hand. He sweats after holding it for a while. Neither of us spoke, and we were crowded by the crowd.

It’s weird to say that, as a straight man who has always been far away from gay men and has never looked at danmei,¹Boy’s love I didn’t find it so strange after holding hands with my boss so gayly.

People’s adaptability was really strong. Sure enough, I have had a lot of contact with gays that I have changed a lot myself.

I finally found Li Xiaoming and his jiejie,²Older Sister Li Yingning, in front of the fortune-telling booth on the side of the road. Gan Yao was also there, but Jingjing had gone somewhere.

When I first met Li Xiaoming in college, he told me that he was the ugliest child in his family. I thought he was just humble. When I actually met his jiejie and saw the photos of his mother and aunt, I realized that I had seen too little.

Li Yingning was discovered by scouts when she was young. She used her stage name to play the female lead of a national-level family drama.

I was an avid fan of this drama when I was in my teens. I’m embarrassed to say that before I was addicted to Cat Star CP, Li Yingning used to be my young goddess.

It was just that her ambition wasn’t here, and her nature couldn’t bear the various unspoken rules of the entertainment industry. After earning enough money to study, she has never acted again.

I found out that the goddess of my youth was my friend’s jiejie. What a drama. I also had a lot of turmoil in my heart.

I nervously asked Li Yingning to write me an autograph, but she directly refused. “Write a fart. I’m not a star. Don’t mention the past, it’s annoying to mention it.”

It was the second time I met Li Yingning. Under my shocked gaze, Li Yingning lit a cigarette, while Li Xiaoming obediently handed his jiejie an ashtray on the side.

“You don’t know how bad the director was at that time. B³Curse word, he dared to touch Laozi’s⁴Referring to oneself arrogantly. I, your father. ass. I’m not used to him. I just swung a bottle over, and I won’t be angry with this stinky money anymore.”

My gentle beauty filter for Li Yingning was broken.

The Li family are all beauties, but this temper— I can only say that Li Xiaoming was a bit inferior.

Li Yingning and my parents were used to it. They took Li Xiaoming out to visit temple fairs every year.

Li Xiaoming has been dependent on his sister since he was a child, and he has obeyed his sister’s orders. I have never seen him disobey Li Yingning.

The same was true now. Li Yingning was interested in the fortune-telling booth. He was carrying a bag and water next to him, glaring at Gan Yao, who was wagging his tail at Li Yingning.

Wipe… Gan Yao, this kid is really dead, and his eyes are straight when he sees a beautiful woman.

But Li Yingning wasn’t interested in a brat like Gan Yao at all, who still smelled of milk that hadn’t dried yet,⁵He’s saying he’s still immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears. and she liked to ignore his words. As soon as she saw me, she beckoned to me like a puppy.

I rushed over first and slapped Gan Yao lightly on the back of his head.

I said, “Where did Jingjing go? Didn’t she go with you?”

“Ouch, you’ve wronged me,” Gan Yao’s gaze moved down. It stopped at the hands Ning Yiheng and I were holding, and slowly took it back, “I sent Jingjing to my parents before I went out to go shopping by myself. How could I leave her alone.”

Only then did I realize that I was still holding hands with Ning Yiheng.

I pulled my hand away in panic, put my hand behind my back, and subconsciously used my fingers to constantly knead the palm that was held by Ning Yiheng.

Fortunately, Li Xiaoming didn’t look my way.

I don’t know why I did this. My palm inexplicably itched. After being seen by Gan Yao, the place where Ning Yiheng had touched was like being crawled over by ants that kept scratching the flesh of my palm.

I couldn’t help but wonder about my relationship with Ning Yiheng. Whether our behavior was a bit out of line. I don’t quite understand the boundaries between friends and lovers defined by gays.

After all, I have never been in a relationship, and love in Doujin literature rarely has twists and turns.

The protagonist can always get loyal love— Even if there is a problem in the middle, it’s better for the two of them to sleep first regardless of any explanation.

In real life, it would be nice to be in God’s perspective.

Li Yingning didn’t notice the twists and turns in my heart. She grabbed me by the shoulder carelessly, pushed me to the fortune-telling booth, and said, “Master, draw the same slip of paper for my other didi.”⁶Younger brother.

Before I could react to what she was going to do, the old man began to shake the tube in his hand.

As a materialistic young man, I naturally don’t believe in these feudal superstitions, but Li Yingning was very interested. I have to draw a slip of paper out to be satisfied.

The old man said a bunch of things that I didn’t understand. After hearing it, I realized that what he divined for me was a marriage sign.

He said that it was conservatively estimated that I would be able to find a partner early next year. They’re still an acquaintance of mine, and I’ll live off a woman.⁷Derogatory term of a man to live off a woman.

I thought about the girls around me who could be called acquaintances. Except for Li Yingning, there seemed to be no one else. Even the frequently seen colleagues in my office were basically men.

Li Yingning… I glanced at Li Xiaoming’s beautiful jiejie and thought to myself: It’s better to forget it ba.

But living off a woman can account for all this, which was too detailed.

However, I don’t have much hope for this. After all, my mother asks me for a marriage sign every year, and every year she says that she can protect my marriage. The result is not that I’m widowed now.

Ning Yiheng never interjected, and only then did he come up and say, “Let me see your paper.”

I handed him my paper.

I turned my head to look at Li Xiaoming’s paper, which said the words “Quarrelsome but loving couple”, and some words that exhorted him to be less angry and less indulgent, particularly the indulgence. The description was so detailed that I couldn’t bear to look directly at it.

His didn’t seem to be a serious marriage paper, it looked much heavier than mine.

I looked at Li Xiaoming’s tall and slender figure thoughtfully.

You really can’t judge a book by its cover.

Li Xiaoming rolled his eyes. He put his hands around his chest. His delicate fingers tapped impatiently between his elbows, avoiding the stall owner, and whispering, “Cheng-ge, do you really believe in this thing?”

“I’m not in love, what’s the use of spending more money on what the above said?”

I laughed and didn’t say anything. My mind was full of the few words in Li Xiaoming’s paper— In the future, he would have to bear fruit with Ning Yiheng, just by looking at the paper, he would have to bottom.

When I thought of Ning Yiheng, my heart began to get inexplicably uncomfortable again.

Am I really jealous of Ning Yiheng and Li Xiaoming’s relationship and that I’m jealous of my own friend?

Then I’m really a jealous man.

As soon as I turned my head, I met Ning Yiheng’s smiling eyes.

I didn’t know what he was smiling about, so I asked him directly, “Boss, what are you smiling at? How about you too?”

“It’s nothing,” Ning Yiheng pursed his smile back again. He held my marriage paper in his hand and hid it behind his back. “Your marriage stick is also quite interesting.”

“I was quite happy to see this kind of thing for the first time.”

“Xiu Xiu ah, get up and eat breakfast. After eating, go to the temple fair—ai yo!”

I opened my eyes in a daze, and there was Ning Yiheng’s arm across, in front of me.

I moved his arm away and met my mother’s thoughtful gaze.

She didn’t say anything, took a step back, and gently closed the door.

Like many Chinese parents, my parents never knocked on the door when they pushed my bedroom door. They could enter if they wanted, and leave if they wanted.

When I was young, I couldn’t resist. When I grew up, I worked out all year round. It was rare to go home for the Chinese New Year, so I put up with it.

In the end, my mother still treated me like a child. She never pushed open my brother and sister-in-law’s bedroom door.

I woke up a little blinded. After a while, I realized that Ning Yiheng was holding me tightly, sleeping soundly.

It seemed that the half bowl of beer yesterday made him quite drunk.

Boss’s sleeping appearance was really worrying. It was the same when he stayed overnight in my room before.

The person he shared the bed with was also me. However, if it was changed to someone else, boss had the habit of hugging whoever he slept with. How much trouble will he cause?

But as a straight man, it was indeed a bit awkward to be embraced by Ning Yiheng in his sleep like this.

I slept quite exhausted all night and I didn’t want to move when I woke up. I didn’t bother to move Ning Yiheng’s hand on me, so I looked at the ceiling and yawned in a daze.

Ning Yiheng was too squeezed, so it was more comfortable to sleep alone.

Ning Yiheng’s eyelashes swept across the side of my neck. His eyelashes were so long that I couldn’t help shrinking my neck.

Ning Yiheng woke up.

He didn’t take his hand away from me, and asked in a muffled voice, “Last night… Nothing happened, right?”

I don’t know how much Ning Yiheng remembers, but as a high-EQ employee, I absolutely cannot let slip that he took me for Li Xiaoming last night.

In order to facilitate Ning Yiheng a step-down, I immediately replied, “No, boss, you fell asleep as soon as you drank.”

Ning Yiheng’s tone sounded a bit lost, “That’s good.”

I was sensitive to his sense of loss.

It was true that Li Xiaoming didn’t come to dinner yesterday and Ning Yiheng didn’t see his sweetheart that night, so he was depressed.

Don’t worry, boss. After this year I will definitely let you two get married.¹Love will find a way (idiom)

“There is a temple fair in our town today. Li Xiaoming may not come to my house for dinner, but he will definitely go to the temple fair.” I specifically emphasized that Li Xiaoming will go to the temple fair and gave Ning Yiheng a reassuring pat, “Boss, it’s okay.”

Ning Yiheng looked at me suspiciously.

Li Xiaoming could hide at home and not go out, but he can’t not accompany his sister.

I seriously comforted him and said, “Boss, don’t worry, everything will be fine.”

“It’s time for us to get up, can you move your hand off my thigh first.”

Although I know Ning Yiheng didn’t mean it, it’s easy for people to get the wrong idea when they see it, like my mom.

Ning Yiheng: …

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My parents have the habit of going to the temple fair every year. My eldest brother’s family sometimes went to my sister-in-law’s house for the Chinese New Year.

I’m the only one who was single and hadn’t started a family yet, so I followed my parents to the temple fair every year.

I’m actually interested in the temple fair in general, mainly to accompany my parents. Since I started working, my mother has asked me for a marriage stick²Marriage predestined by fate. It’s like those drawing lots with bamboo sticks for luck. every year, but it turned out that feudal superstition wasn’t necessary, the more you asked for it, the more you won’t get it.

Both Gan Yao and Cheng Jingjing were here this year, and our family was suddenly a lot more lively.

We had a simple breakfast and drove directly to the town. There were a lot of people at the temple fair.

There were people who rushed to the temple fair, sold all kinds of food toys, set up stalls, and fortune-telling, and there were many vaudeville show performances.

I grew up here when I was a child, and I no longer had the excitement of coming out to catch the temple fair. The two children, Gan Yao and Jingjing have lived in the city since they were young, and they were very excited when they came out to play. They ran away without a shadow when they got out of the car.

Ning Yiheng had never seen this scene. He was a bit uncomfortable with so many people at the temple fair. He became very restrained in a strange environment. No matter where I went, he followed me quietly.

I took Ning Yiheng away from my family and prepared to find Li Xiaoming.

There were too many tourists coming and going on the street. After I walked around in a daze for a while, Ning Yiheng was squeezed behind by the crowd, and the person disappeared in the blink of an eye.

But the crowd behind me didn’t allow me to go back, pushing me forward step by step.

In this way, I was pushed by the crowd to the square of the vaudeville show before I could finally stop, but Ning Yiheng had long since disappeared.

It’s over, my boss is lost.

In any case, I couldn’t leave Ning Yiheng alone in the crowd, so I immediately turned back to find him.

At this moment, First List Dage’s WeChat came out.

Dage: I don’t have a good relationship with my family. My parents were married in business and divorced when I was born. My parents each formed a new family. No matter where I am, I am quite unnecessary.

Dage: But it’s okay, I’m doing well by myself.

Oh my god, Dage is so miserable.

I asked him about his relationship with his family yesterday, and he didn’t reply to me until today.

I walked back to find Ning Yiheng while tapping on the keyboard: Dage, everything will pass, and it’s most important that you live well.

Dage: En.

Me: Have you been busy lately?

Dage: Not bad, I got to spend time with the person I like.

Me: Ah, Dage, you’re already married?

Dage: Not yet, he doesn’t know that I like him.

I noticed that Dage sent “he” to describe a man. I talked with Dage for so long and understood his typing habits. He spoke very carefully and rarely typed wrong words.

It couldn’t be that Dage was also…

Forget it, gay is also just an ordinary person, I have nothing to be surprised about.

I’ll just talk to him normally: So how are you guys developing?

Dage: I think he might like me a little bit, but he and his roommate always feel… I don’t know.

Dage: I will make it clear to him. Wait after the new year, now is not the time.

I was surprised that such a nice Dage would also suffer from emotional problems— There are still people who don’t like him?

If I were gay I would also have a crush on Dage.

Before I could figure out how to reply to Dage, I found Ning Yiheng on the side of the roadside stall. He was holding a bunch of meatballs in his hand and was still standing not far away waiting for me from where we separated.

He handed me the string of meatballs.

I suddenly had a sense of déjà vu where parents were going out with their children, but Ning Yiheng was too big and good-natured, and he wouldn’t run away when he got lost.

I didn’t even think about it before I ate a meatball. As I chewed, I remembered Ning Yiheng and asked, “Boss, aren’t you eating?”

Things at the temple fair will be very expensive. When I came to stroll the street to look around, I rarely buy things there.

So to say, these meatballs are really good.

Ning Yiheng watched me eat. He shook his head and said, “I won’t eat what I bought for you.”

Boss was really a good person, he still thought of buying me meatballs even at this time.

There were still a lot of people coming and going on the street. We stood by the steps on the stall and we were able to stop for a while to rest.

I looked at Ning Yiheng and Ning Yiheng also looked at me.

“Boss, hold my hand.” As if demons and gods were at work, I came up with such an idea. I reached out to Ning Yiheng and said, “There are too many people here, and it’s easy for two people to be squeezed apart.”

“Hold my hand so we won’t get separated.”

Ning Yiheng has made a lot of progress compared to the last time. At least this time, he didn’t have a drop left.

He scared my parents terribly. After a while of disarray, I, who had already seen this scene, calmly carried Ning Yiheng back to my bedroom.

Compared with other houses in the village, our single-story house occupies a fairly large area, but there are many people in the family.

My brother and sister-in-law occupy one room and my parents, one room. Gan Yao and his meimei¹Younger sister, Jing Jing, have to live in a separate room since they’re not young— There was really no other empty room at home, so only my bedroom could still be occupied.

I originally proposed to let Ning Yiheng sleep in my bedroom. I went to squeeze in with Gan Yao, but this kid severely refused, saying I would interfere with his video with his girlfriend.

He thought I was in the way. I don’t want to hear him and his girlfriend being lovey-dovey!

My mother also disapproved of letting Ning Yiheng sleep in my bedroom alone. He was drunk and needed someone to take care of him, so I could only take care of him.

Ning Yiheng has always been quite obedient after drinking. He lay flat on the bed and slept quietly, while I sat idly by the bed.

Suddenly, I recalled the meaningful look my mother gave me after learning that Ning Yiheng was going to sleep in my bedroom.

It was better to live in a muddle between family members, there was no need to be too clear about it.

I decided not to think about what she was implying.

It was just after nine o’clock, and it was still early. My Dage never returned my message. He was probably busy going home for the Chinese New Year.

I was so bored that I clicked on the software on the mobile phone to control the camera.

I haven’t seen Mimi all day today, and I don’t know how Mimi, a cat, was doing at home.

Just at this time, Mimi was doing parkour in my bedroom.

It can also play very vigorously at home as a cat by itself. It leaped onto my desk, raised its paws, and got rid of all the bottles and cans on the desktop to the ground.

Me: …

I hurriedly turned the camera to look at the floor. I only saw a mess of things all over the place, bitten data cables, earphones broken in two, and a few unknown objects that couldn’t be seen with how they were. I kept zooming in on the picture, and I faintly saw the corpses of a few bugs.

Sure enough, Mimi was happier when I wasn’t at home, and it completely let go of its nature.

Just as I was staring intently at the things on the floor and trying to identify them, Mimi’s furry head suddenly occupied the entire screen.

It climbed to the closet where I fixed the camera at some point, sniffed around the camera with its small nose for a while, then took a step back and began to hit the camera.

Under Mimi’s meow fist attack, the world in the surveillance shook and rotated violently. It seemed to be very curious about this guy who could turn the camera by himself. Every time it hits it, it tilts its head to observe the reaction of the camera.

Fortunately, I deliberately installed the camera very firmly at the time, otherwise, the monitoring would have to be pushed down by Mimi.

Hehe, the kitten was so cute and so curious about the camera.

I just giggled while watching Mimi hit the camera for half an hour.

Mimi was so persistent, and so was I. The camera quality was so good.

I never tire of watching Mimi being seduced by the rotating camera, and I can’t wait to go back to B City immediately and hold it in my arms.

At the same time, a pair of powerful palms suddenly grabbed my waist. Before I could react, I was directly dragged down and pressed heavily on Ning Yiheng.

I realized that the hands belonged to Ning Yiheng. After I fell on him, his arms tightly wrapped around my waist and I couldn’t even struggle free.

Mimi lost interest in the camera and jumped out of the closet. I couldn’t continue to observe its movements.

I rested my head on Ning Yiheng’s shoulder and listened to him gasp heavily.

Ning Yiheng was obviously not sober yet, and the pronunciation of every word he said was sticky together, “…You’re so cute.”

I was dumbfounded.

Even if boss was delirious, he couldn’t sexually harass his employees at this time.

Fortunately, boss met me while he was drunk. If he met someone else to make a big deal about this, Li Xiaoming’s violent temper would have to pinch his balls.

Just thinking about the bloody scene, my lower body also became cold.

For the rest of Ning Yiheng’s second half of his life and the happiness of his lower body, I can only endure and say, “Boss, I don’t know who you think of me, but don’t do this to others. It’s immoral.”

Of course, I know that the object of Ning Yiheng’s fantasy was unsurprisingly Li Xiaoming, but I didn’t make the words clear. My words were full of euphemistic hints, so as to leave Ning Yiheng with enough dignity.

When he wakes up, he would realize that I didn’t care about his drunken gaffe at all and even handed him a step down with high EQ.

In case he couldn’t hear it, I added, “That… Except for Li Xiaoming.”

Wuwu, I’m so moved. Where can you find such a good employee like me?

I’m a person who is prone to let my imagination run wild.

When I think about the possibility of Li Xiaoming crushing Ning Yiheng’s balls, I can’t help but fantasize about the scene of Li Xiaoming’s rage after Ning Yiheng made a mistake.

I believe boss is a loyal and good man, but in case he is fed alcoholic beverages by someone with ulterior motives…

The result was unimaginable.

According to the plot in the novels, it should be where the protagonist misunderstood that his lover fell in love with someone else, but in fact, it was his lover who was looking for a stand-in for the protagonist.

Under the wrong circumstances, he started the melodramatic sadomasochism that you love me, I love him, and he doesn’t love me…

The three views were incorrect, but I like it.

Ning Yiheng: ?

Ning Yiheng was a person who would be quite silly after getting drunk. He would say whatever was on his mind, “Why is Li Xiaoming an exception?”

My mind was full of dog-blooded serials, and the more I think about it, the more excited I am. I even want to write it down immediately and use it as material for fanfiction in the future.

There are too many things on my mind, and dealing with Ning Yiheng’s words will inevitably become perfunctory. I said without even thinking about it. “Because Li Xiaoming can pinch balls.”

Ning Yiheng: ???

“No— Wait, I mean chicken eggs, yes, chicken eggs.²His previous statement regarding balls can also mean egg because (蛋) means egg, but since he said (蛋蛋) it meant balls. I found myself saying stupid things in front of my boss again, and I couldn’t wait to slap myself. I made things up in panic by saying, “Li Xiaoming is very good at cracking eggs. He can beat eggs into a heart shape or a round shape…”

Ning Yiheng frowned and said, “What did you mention Li Xiaoming for?”

My brain short-circuited and I stumbled to answer, “Because Li Xiaoming can beat eggs…”

Ning Yiheng: …

Ning Yiheng didn’t seem to be clear-headed yet, so I asked him seriously, “Boss, do you know who I am?”

Ning Yiheng was obviously very unhappy. He wrapped his arms around me, got up, pressed me under him, and said viciously, “You’re Li Xiaoming, and I’m also Li Xiaoming. We’re all him. Are you satisfied?”

Damn ah, my boss has gone crazy with alcohol.

He was really thinking about Li Xiaoming, so much so that he started to get confused.

I pulled out my pressed hand and pushed his lower abdomen.

F*ck, Ning Yiheng’s abs are so comfortable to touch, making people jealous and envious.

I couldn’t help but take the opportunity to touch a few more back and forth.

This isn’t taking advantage of somebody, this is just a straight man’s longing for muscles.

“Don’t touch it,” Ning Yiheng said stuffily, “I’m afraid I can’t control it…”

I realized that I was a lot like sexually harassing a gay and Ning Yiheng was good-tempered and endured not to beat me. I was afraid of annoying him, so I immediately withdrew my hand.

Is this the power of meat muscles?

Boss, for the sake of me working so hard for your love, don’t hit me…

Ning Yiheng said, “You… Li Xiaoming…”

Boss, it’s okay to think of me as Li Xiaoming, I will convey what you want to say to Li Xiaoming for you!

I imitated Li Xiaoming’s tone and said, “I’m here.”

Ning Yiheng fell on my shoulder and fell asleep.

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Author’s Note:

Giving Ning a song, “What Kind of Man”³If you want to listen, you can click this link. By Jay Chou.

Handsome CEOs in dog blood texts had already put their disobedient shous to sleep in such a way, while the Handsome CEO in this hilarious text can only suffer from the dumbness and let his wife set him up to fall in love with others.

ps: I haven’t thought about some details of the setting in the nephew’s book, and I haven’t thought about the copywriting. You can click on the author to collect it.

I usually write a long article and a short article. The next short article will be about Xiaoming la, so the story of the eldest nephew may not start until a long time later, so there is no hurry.