“Ugh…”

In the early morning, Gu Yuanqiao woke up and slowly sat up from the bed. He bent his knees, propping his forehead against his palm with his elbow, while an unavoidable, strange sensation throbbed beneath him.

Yesterday evening, after being drugged by someone, he had been taken to a room. Then the effects of the drug took hold, and after that… who came after that?

‘Dead pervert.’ A voice echoed in his mind, making him gradually snap awake.

Sheng, Sheng Yannian?!

The memories of last night rushed back to him like a tidal wave. The sheer absurdity of the information gave him a bout of mental indigestion, and his face went entirely blank. He stiffly turned his head, only to find Sheng Yannian sleeping soundly right next to him.

The man’s eyes were tightly shut at the moment, his usual overbearing demeanor completely tucked away. The white blanket only covered the man’s chest, leaving his firm pectoral muscles half-wrapped. His chest rose and fell with his breathing, and even just that little glimpse made it obvious that this person definitely focused on working out in his daily life. Putting all personal factors aside, Gu Yuanqiao had to admit that Sheng Yannian’s face and physique were highly attractive, regardless of gender.

But now was not the time to be evaluating the other person’s body and looks.

“….” Gu Yuanqiao recovered from the memories of last night, and immediately after, a massive sense of absurdity washed over him. He had slept with this annoying brat?! And he was the one on the bottom?!

A mix of various emotions made him pounce toward Sheng Yannian beside him almost instinctively, wanting to choke him to death.

But he seemed to have forgotten his own physical condition. The sudden, large movement put an unbearable burden on his already aching waist, causing him to ultimately collapse right onto the other man’s chest.

“Fuck…” Unable to hold it in, he let out a tiny, whispered curse.

“Mm…” Unsurprisingly, Sheng Yannian woke up from the weight pressing down on his chest. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw Gu Yuanqiao sprawling over his chest. The visual was a bit too stimulating, making the nerves on his forehead throb.

“What? Are you insatiable again so early in the morning?” Having just woken up, Sheng Yannian’s voice was still a bit raspy.

Gu Yuanqiao didn’t reply, but simply turned his head to glare fiercely at Sheng Yannian. However, those somewhat swollen fox eyes carried absolutely no menace right now; they even seemed a bit coquettish.

“Why are you glaring at me? Didn’t you keep clinging to me and begging for it last night? Forgot already?”

“Shut up!” Clearly, the man’s words reminded Gu Yuanqiao of something.

But the more exasperated Gu Yuanqiao became, the happier Sheng Yannian felt.

“Heh… thanks to last night, I also found out that a man can actually squirt just like a woman…” Sheng Yannian lowered his voice, speaking in an extremely suggestive manner. “Tell me, since you’re already like this, will you even be able to top anyone else in the future?”

Gu Yuanqiao’s chest heaved, his face turning red and white in turns, which Sheng Yannian found incredibly amusing to watch.

Shame, an unprecedented sense of shame. He didn’t know if it was because the partner was Sheng Yannian, or because he had achieved the ultimate pleasure during his very first time being topped. In short, he felt like his brain had stopped functioning right now, completely unable to process the current situation.

Sheng Yannian looked at Gu Yuanqiao’s increasingly pale face and began to find it dull. Knowing when to stop, he didn’t say anything more to provoke Gu Yuanqiao.

“Knock, knock, knock.” A sudden knock on the door broke the charged atmosphere in the room, also causing Gu Yuanqiao’s brain to start working again. He looked up at Sheng Yannian, knowing it couldn’t be his own people outside the door.

“President Sheng, I’ve brought your clothes. May I come in?” The person at the door was Qi Tao, who was Sheng Yannian’s secretary.

Sheng Yannian looked at Gu Yuanqiao, a mischievous smile appearing on his face once more, and called out loudly:

“Come on in.”

“Yes, sir.”

The moment the doorknob turned, Gu Yuanqiao also buried his face back into Sheng Yannian’s chest, looking exactly like a bashful little lover. He absolutely did not want anyone discovering that he and Sheng Yannian had a thing going on! Of course, Sheng Yannian certainly didn’t miss the shocked look on the other’s face.

“Don’t look around, just leave the clothes on the table.” Sheng Yannian reached up and gently stroked Gu Yuanqiao’s hair, his movements entirely filled with suggestiveness and tenderness. He could feel Gu Yuanqiao’s breath puffing against his skin, tickling him slightly.

“Yes, sir.” Qi Tao strictly adhered to being a good secretary, naturally picking up on the warning in his boss’s tone. He kept his head down the entire time, avoiding looking toward the bed, and only stood straight after setting down the clothes and turning around.

As the sound of the doorknob turning echoed once more, Gu Yuanqiao left the chest. Perhaps it was Sheng Yannian’s uncharacteristic comforting gesture that allowed him to slowly regain his calm and rationality. There was no need for him to bicker with a junior who was six years younger than him. As for last night… he would just consider it as getting bitten by a dog, fuck.

“Annoying brat…” Perhaps feeling that taking a step back only made him angrier the more he thought about it, Gu Yuanqiao still couldn’t hold back and cursed in a low voice.

“Heh.” Sheng Yannian let out a soft snort, but uncharacteristically didn’t snap back. He got up from the bed and picked up the bag. “My clothes are inside here. You can take a set to wear and then leave. Remember, once you walk out of this door, act as if everything that happened last night never occurred.”

“….” Gu Yuanqiao gave Sheng Yannian a forced smile as he watched him get out of bed and walk into the bathroom. There was nothing wrong with the final sentence the other man said, but it just sounded incredibly irritating to his ears. Statements like that should be delivered by him. Right now, it made him look like some unlucky bastard the other guy had randomly pulled off the street for a quick lay, only to turn around and act cold and distant afterward.

Gu Yuanqiao sat on the bed and took three deep breaths, then sluggishly pulled over the bag that had been thrown onto the bed.

‘Want me to leave? I’m precisely not leaving.’

By the time Sheng Yannian finished his shower and walked out, he saw Gu Yuanqiao sitting on the sofa looking at his phone. The sunlight had taken over almost the entire room. Gu Yuanqiao was dressed in a sharp suit, completely restored to his usual proper demeanor. But looking at him right now, it was almost impossible to imagine that the person acting with reckless abandon on the bed last night was him.

‘Hmph, a dressed-up wolf.’

“Why haven’t you left yet?” Sheng Yannian said crossly.

“I don’t feel well.”

“How exactly do you feel unwell?” Sheng Yannian felt the other man was talking nonsense.

Hearing this, Gu Yuanqiao lifted his eyes to glance at Sheng Yannian, speaking as if he were talking about someone else’s business.

“If you were get fucked for that long by someone, you wouldn’t feel well either.”

“You…” Sheng Yannian was choked up. He really couldn’t figure out where Gu Yuanqiao’s line of shame was drawn. The bashful look from this morning had completely vanished without a trace.

Seeing that the other guy wasn’t leaving, he had no choice but to pull over a chair and sit across the table from him.

He hadn’t been able to see very clearly from a distance just now, but sitting close like this allowed him to take a good look at the person opposite him. The man wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and those handsome fox eyes that had faced him directly this morning were now hidden behind the lenses. Even the mole on his left cheek happened to be obscured by the frame at this angle. The eyes that were usually full of schemes were currently scanning left and right, reading the content on his phone, occasionally pausing as if he were lost in thought.

After all, they hadn’t seen each other for several years. Last time at the banquet, he had only caught a glimpse of a silhouette from behind. Last night, there wasn’t much light in the room, and he only remembered those eyes shining in the darkness with a brightness that made one’s heart tremble. In his memory, the little fox of seventeen or eighteen had clearly turned into a much trickier old fox after studying abroad.

Unsure of what he saw, Gu Yuanqiao frowned slightly, and his gaze darkened a bit. He was probably thinking about how to dig a pit for someone again. But very quickly, his eyes moved again, and his expression returned to normal. This entire process took less than a second, and Sheng Yannian was somewhat surprised by the other’s ability to control his facial expressions. Consequently, even the Gu Yuanqiao in his memory seemed to become pure and lively by comparison.

“Weren’t you doing perfectly fine staying abroad all this time? What did you come back for?” After a short while, Sheng Yannian voiced his confusion. In his impression, Gu Yuanqiao hadn’t contacted his older brother at all after going abroad, including this return to the country, which he hadn’t told anyone about. If they hadn’t run into each other at the banquet a few nights ago, he would have probably forgotten such a person even existed.

“Mm… just came to catch up with an old friend.” Gu Yuanqiao pondered for a moment, then smiled with utmost politeness.

“Cut the crap. If you really cared about your so-called ‘old friend,’ you wouldn’t have gone abroad for so many years without sending a single message to my brother.” Sheng Yannian found it exasperating to listen to his nonsense.

“What? Did your brother miss me a lot during the days I was gone?”

“Bullshit, he didn’t even mention you!” The moment his older brother was brought up, a memory fragment immediately lit up in Sheng Yannian’s mind, setting off alarm bells in his heart. Bristling like an angry cat, he snapped, “I’m warning you to stay away from my brother. He’s already married now, so give up on him sooner, you perverted bastard!”

“Heh.” Gu Yuanqiao let out a light laugh, shifting his gaze back to Sheng Yannian, his tone full of disdain. “Not seeing you for a few years, your brother complex seems to have gotten even worse. That’s a disease you need to get treated, you know?”

“No matter how I am, I’m still better than a dead pervert like you who wanted to grope someone while they were asleep.” Sheng Yannian shot back instantly, barely even thinking.

Bringing up the past made both of them freeze. Sheng Yannian could clearly see that the warmth had drained from the depths of Gu Yuanqiao’s eyes. Even with the obstruction of the lenses, it wasn’t hard to read the other man’s warning. It felt like being targeted by a predator; a single misstep and he would bite down on one’s weak spot. But Gu Yuanqiao only stared at him intently for three seconds before withdrawing his gaze, the atmospheric pressure remaining very low.

“….” Sheng Yannian didn’t know why he felt a bit guilty under that gaze, but he quickly snapped out of it. The person in the wrong back then was clearly Gu Yuanqiao, so what right did he have to throw a tantrum at him?!

After correcting his posture, Sheng Yannian looked back at Gu Yuanqiao, but it was very obvious that the other man had no intention of paying attention to him. Being ignored made him feel a bit awkward.

“Cough…” He cleared his throat, wanting to draw the attention of the person opposite him. “Cough, mm…”

Gu Yuanqiao didn’t even give him a single glance.

“….Tsk.”

The room was very quiet. Sheng Yannian could hear the ticking of the watch’s second hand along with the sound of his own breathing. Perhaps wanting to kill time, or perhaps because he felt that the relationship between the two of them might have shifted slightly due to last night, even though he still highly disliked Gu Yuanqiao, Sheng Yannian spoke up again to break the silence.

“Hey, what did you plan to do if I hadn’t come yesterday?”

“….” Gu Yuanqiao was completely exasperated by this question, but out of politeness, he still replied, “What else could I do? You saw the state I was in last night. I couldn’t even resist you alone, let alone three or four of them?”

“So you would have just let them fuck you like that and record a video?” Sheng Yannian frowned, his tone carrying an unpleasant edge that he hadn’t even realized himself. But it wasn’t directed at Gu Yuanqiao.

“…Then what could I do?” Gu Yuanqiao grew impatient from Sheng Yannian’s counter-question. “Beg them not to fuck me and not to record a video? Do you think they would agree?”

“…” Perhaps realizing the impropriety of his tone just now, Sheng Yannian fell silent for a moment, then asked again, “Aren’t you even worried or scared in hindsight?”

“Didn’t it not happen? Why should I worry about something that didn’t happen?” Gu Yuanqiao suspected whether Sheng Yannian had bumped his head while showering just now, otherwise why was he acting so uncharacteristically? One had to know that before last night, every time this annoying brat saw him, it was like looking at a piece of filth.

“You’re a person of high standing after all, how can you care so little about your own reputation?” Sheng Yannian suddenly grew infuriated by the other’s nonchalant attitude. Wasn’t it said that Gu Yuanqiao cared about his face the most? He was almost gang-raped by others last night, so why was he still acting as if it had nothing to do with him?

“Ha…” Gu Yuanqiao set down his phone. “I don’t care about my own reputation? Please, Sheng Yannian, last night I was the one who was drugged and forced by you, I’m the victim here. What exactly are you interrogating me for, you rapist?”

“I…” Sheng Yannian was choked up once more. It wasn’t that he couldn’t think of any words to argue back, but rather that saying those words out loud would make even he himself feel shameless and unreasonable. Besides… what Gu Yuanqiao said wasn’t wrong, he really was the victim… but how could he refer to him as a rapist?

Sheng Yannian recalled his behavior from last night… alright, it was indeed a bit… but, he was still somewhat different from guys like Jiang Xuewen…

This was the first time he had been scolded so formally by Gu Yuanqiao, leaving him slightly at a loss.

After Gu Yuanqiao finished speaking, he shifted his gaze back to his phone, but it was very clear that his mind wasn’t on those documents. He realized his words might have been a bit too harsh. After all, once he realized it was Sheng Yannian last night, he indeed hadn’t been that repulsed, and if his memory served him right, he had even demanded it from Sheng Yannian once near the end. But since the words had already been spoken, it was impossible for him to try and smooth things over now.

He carefully stole a glance at Sheng Yannian and found the other man hanging his head, seemingly in low spirits.

‘Mm? No way? Not seeing him for a few years, has Sheng Yannian become this fragile?’

Noticing a twitch of the other man’s eyelids, Gu Yuanqiao went back to pretending to look over the documents.

“Qi Cheng, help me buy two bowls of porridge…” After a long while, Sheng Yannian took out his phone and dialed his secretary’s number. “I want meat buns and soy milk.” Gu Yuanqiao’s voice chimed in at the perfect time. Sheng Yannian looked over and found the other guy still staring at his phone, looking as if he were very angry. “Add two buns and a cup of soy milk…” Since an out was offered, he might as well take it quickly. “Deliver it to the room door when the time comes, I’ll go pick it up.” The final sentence put Gu Yuanqiao in a slightly better mood again.

After breakfast, Sheng Yannian saw that Gu Yuanqiao on the sofa still showed no intention of making a move to leave. He checked his watch; the hour hand was already approaching 10 o’clock.

When he stood up, the chair scraped backward with a loud noise, causing the person opposite him to lift his eyes and glance over.

“Leaving?”

“Mm.”

There were no excessive inquiries or replies.

Sheng Yannian stood staring at Gu Yuanqiao for a brief moment before walking toward the door, pushing it open to step out.

Before closing the door, Gu Yuanqiao still couldn’t hold back and spoke up:

“You should pay more attention to yourself in the future. I really don’t want to click open some websites one day and see that face of yours.”

The words sounded stiff and quite dull. Gu Yuanqiao let out a chuckle, finally setting down his phone. Supporting his weight with his hand on the sofa, he tilted his head and looked lazily at Sheng Yannian, who stood at the doorway with an unreadable expression:

“Sheng Yannian, has no one ever told you that if you’re showing concern for someone, it’s best to be a bit gentler? Otherwise, the other person might mistake it for a provocation.”

“Who, who’s showing concern for you?! Stop flattering yourself over there!” Sheng Yannian was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, baring his fangs at the culprit. “I just think that if I saw your face on that kind of website, I would lose all interest entirely!”

After saying that, he stopped looking at the person inside the room and forcefully slammed the door shut, letting out a loud bang.

Inside the room, Gu Yuanqiao felt a wave of amusement seeing the flush on the other man’s face. Regarding their attitude toward each other, he and Sheng Yannian were exactly the same. As long as the other person became more exasperated and embarrassed, he would feel more triumphant and happier.

Out in the corridor, Sheng Yannian walked briskly toward the outside. His usual mature and steady appearance in front of the public had completely vanished, and he completely forgot about the group of subordinates still following behind him.

‘I show concern for him?! What a joke?! Why on earth would I care about that dead pervert?! Self-flattering, narcissist!’ Sheng Yannian held a breath in his chest, stuck halfway, with nowhere to vent it. His face was entirely flushed, clearly looking like he had flown into a rage out of sheer embarrassment.

Right now, he only thought about having absolutely no further contact with Gu Yuanqiao after today! It was best not to have too many involvements with that kind of old man who was fast approaching his thirties!