Qin Shiwu’s eyes were tearful, and his facial features wrinkled together as he stared longingly at the popsicle on the floor.
This was the first time that Lu Tong had bought ice cream specifically for him to eat, and before he had even taken two bites, it was spoiled by Qin Chu, the jealous husband! The more he thought about it, the more he regretted it. For once, he wanted to take a knife and go to Qin Chu’s dormitory for a duel. And for a while, he reflected on why he was so foolish just now.
— — This was the retribution for being too foolish.
Qin Shiwu should have known. His father’s possessiveness towards Lu Tong was quite strong after sixteen years, too. He still competed with him, even at a very old age. Which was toxic, right?
However, sixteen years later, Qin Chu at least held a bit of the CEO’s airs and didn’t show it so obviously. After all, rivalling his own son for affection was really detrimental to his image.
But now it was sixteen years before. Now, sixteen years ago, his father was just a few months older than him. He was astonishingly proficient at the skill of slamming doors when he lost his temper, and he was not worse than him at all.
Qin Shiwu and his father were equals when it came to acting like spoiled children and acting in a fit of pique. And now he had kicked the iron plate1It is a metaphor for being rejected or reprimanded instead of achieving one’s goal. e.g., “He sent gifts to bribe the officer investigating the case, but unexpectedly, he was rejected in a serious manner.”.
Lu Tong cleaned up the floor for him and spoke, “Eating too much of it in this weather is not good for your stomach either. You’ll catch a cold.”
Qin Shiwu sniffled, “Oh.”
He reluctantly looked at the ice cream that had already gone into the trash bin and finally accepted this fact.
Lu Tong also followed his eyes and thought: What flavour of ice cream is this? Is it worth it? Is it so delicious?
Qin Shiwu rolled onto the bed, which was just covered with a quilt that was not tucked in properly and a crumpled sheet.
Lu Tong spoke, “You’re just going to sleep like this?”
Qin Shiwu rolled around on the bed and revealed a furry little head, “If I don’t sleep like this, do you want me to sleep standing up?”
Lu Tong pointed to the sheet set on his bed, “Where’s your quilt? Don’t you need to cover the bed with a bed sheet?”
Qin Shiwu admitted frankly, “I don’t know how to do it.”
He didn’t lie.
To put sheets on the bed, he just couldn’t do it.
He couldn’t do it now, and he couldn’t do it sixteen years later either.
When the Young Master of the Qin family went out, the nannies followed him back and forth. Where could he have the need to set the bed sheets?
And because of the special nature of Lu Tong’s profession and Qin Chu’s status in the economic circle, he, as a young master, was not so comfortable. He was always followed by a bunch of bodyguards wherever he went, which felt very unfree.
Not to mention living in school; even when living in the hotel owned by his father, he had to check back and forth. Qin Shiwu had a special status, and in their circle, being kidnapped and getting your ticket torn apart2to kill a hostage (usually held for ransom) seemed to be a common occurrence.
He had also thought about living in the school before when he saw how, when his classmates lived in the school, their parents accompanied them to the school.
Even after they arrived inside the dormitory, their mothers personally helped them change sheets.
He remembered that he had a friend who was a mama’s boy, and in high school, he couldn’t leave his mother to say even three words — — His quilt was handmade by his mother.
Qin Shiwu didn’t get that treatment.
Even if he hadn’t lived on campus before and was living on campus now, he still had no life skills. Not to mention the difficult task of putting on a quilt. The suitcases were just lying around, and his desk wasn’t organised either. In short, it was in awful condition.
Qin Shiwu didn’t care how he slept. His main purpose was to keep an eye on Lu Tong, so he went on to say, “Don’t worry. The student council doesn’t inspect the International Department. So they won’t be able to deduct any points from me!”
After Lu Tong heard this, he was speechless for a moment and thought in his heart: Is this an issue of getting your points deducted? How does he plan to sleep on this bed?
“You get up.” Lu Tong ordered.
Qin Shiwu rarely refuted what he said, and now that he heard him say this, he immediately climbed down from the bed obediently.
But still, he vigilantly felt the mobile phone under his pillow and moved it away in passing.
Lu Tong rolled up the sleeves of his school uniform and shook off the covers with skillful movements.
Qin Shiwu didn’t realise until Lu Tong helped him spread all the sheets that his mother was…… Helping him make the bed?
He stood frozen in place until the entire bed was made neatly, looking spongy and soft. Lu Tong reached out and pinched the quilt. It felt quite thick, so he wouldn’t catch a cold.
After pinching it, he froze for a moment.
— — What was he doing? Making someone else’s bed?
Lu Tong was stunned by the movements of his body that were faster than his brain. When he came to his senses, the bed had already been made.
If He Nian and the others find out about this, it will definitely be listed as the Eighth Wonder of the World.
Lu Tong made the bed for someone else? Who would believe it?
Do you believe it? Does he believe it? You can’t even make up a story that’s as outrageous as this. You might as well make up the story that Lu Tong is an omega!
Hell no. With his iceberg poker face and character of freezing people to death within a five-metre radius? Did he intend to give people a deathbed and then kindly make their beds?
The corner of Lu Tong’s mouth twitched.
Honestly speaking, there were far too many children in the world who could pretend to be pitiful. If he pitied each and every one of them, sooner or later he would tire himself to death. Furthermore, he didn’t seem like a soft-hearted person, yet Qin Shiwu’s pretending to be pitiful particularly touched his heart.
So far, there has been no scientific statement that could clearly explain this strange reaction.
With that, he straightened his body and said to Qin Shiwu, “Don’t tell anyone.”
Qin Shiwu said, after opening his mouth several times, “I won’t tell anyone.”
He paused for a moment before speaking slowly, “My mother has never made my bed.”
After thinking for a moment, he felt that the tense was wrong. Just now Lu Tong had already made his bed, so Qin Shiwu changed his words again, “I mean before.”
Lu Tong hadn’t heard Qin Shiwu mention his parents, so he said casually, “She must be too busy.”
Qin Shiwu replied in a muffled voice, “He said the same thing too.”
The other party’s low mood was so strong that it directly infected Lu Tong.
He hesitated for a while, but then stroked Qin Shiwu’s doggy head.
Lu Tong didn’t know how to comfort him. After half a day, good fortune came, and his mind started working well. He asked, “Have you finished your homework?”
This sentence inexplicably overlapped with that of Lu Tong, sixteen years later.
Qin Shiwu felt chills up and down his back as a conditioned reflex.
A mother’s demand every night to check the homework was something that every Chinese teenager of the present age was instinctively afraid of.
Qin Shiwu hurriedly said, “I’ll write it right away!”
He remembered Qin Chu and pushed Lu Tong out, “You go back to your dormitory first. Thank you for making my bed.”
Lu Tong, “…… Then you hurry up and go to bed.”
Qin Shiwu nodded violently and obediently crawled back to his bed.
“Lu Tong!” he suddenly shouted out.
Lu Tong turned around to face him. Qin Shiwu smiled sweetly, and the pair of eyes curled into a crescent moon, irresistibly adorable, “Can you come and see me tomorrow as well.”
…… What kind of request was this?
He, “Yes.”
Qin Shiwu got the answer and covered himself with the quilt contentedly. He murmured, “If you come to see me tomorrow at nine o’clock, I’ll be happy and start looking forward to it at seven o’clock itself.”
Lu Tong switched off the light for him and came out of 1201. The dormitory staff auntie was already in the corridor, urging everyone to go back to their dormitories.
When Lu Tong went back, Qin Chu had already showered. The clothes that he had changed out of were directly thrown into the washing machine, and the person was lying motionless on the bed as if he was asleep.
Lu Tong glanced at him, went to his bed, and kicked Qin Chu’s bed, “Hey.”
Qin Chu didn’t do anything.
Lu Tong, “Still angry? What’s there to be angry about?”
His tone was close to that of coaxing.
After saying that, Lu Tong silently cursed himself: I think I’m really f*** sick. Do I owe you two? Going to coax the older one after the younger one is coaxed? Who the hell is going to coax me?
Qin Chu still ignored him. So Lu Tong went to wash up.
By the time he came out of the shower, the lights outside the dormitory were already turned off. Qin Chu didn’t close the curtains when he went to bed at night, and there was only a dim nightlight left in the dormitory that was still struggling to perform its function.
It didn’t look like the pouring rain outside the window would stop. Lu Tong felt the region of the bedside cabinet with his hand and fished out a bottle of blocker from it.
He kept his hand on his gland.
It had been some time since the last time Qin Chu had given him a temporary marker. Now Qin Chu’s pheromones were getting fainter and fainter in his system, resulting in not enough of them for him at all to defend him against other alphas.
That day in the hospital, he was going to ask for another one but was interrupted by Qin Chu. Originally, Lu Tong had planned to ask for it again tonight. But since he had a bit of a disagreement with Qin Chu just now, he couldn’t bring it up no matter what.
“Forget it.” He thought, “I’ll keep using the blocker for two more days, and then if it’s no longer enough, I’ll ask for it again.”
Lu Tong rolled over and laid down on the bed. The room was filled with the rose-scented fragrance. He tossed and turned but couldn’t sleep. And then, finally, he lifted the quilt and sat up directly.
“No. I’ll check if Qin Chu is asleep.”
Lu Tong stood in front of Qin Chu’s bed, and the sound of the other party’s even breathing came from time to time.
…… He seemed to be asleep.
Lu Tong tugged at Qin Chu’s quilt, and through the dim light, he saw Qin Chu’s face clearly.
When he closed his eyes, he looked quite like Qin Shiwu.
After Lu Tong thought about it, he suddenly froze. He was speechless at himself: Hell, where is the resemblance? It’s not the same at all.
After seeing that Qin Chu had really fallen asleep, Lu Tong gave up and prepared to get up.
Who would have known that a hand would suddenly stretch out from the blanket and grab Lu Tong’s wrist?
Lu Tong, “You’re not asleep?”
Qin Chu violently yanked him forward. Lu Tong was caught off guard, and his entire body slammed into his arms.
The sky spun, and the earth went round for a while. Then, when Lu Tong opened his eyes dizzily, he was already lying on the bed, and Qin Chu was stuck between his legs with his legs bent.
He let out a laugh, his peach blossom eyes lingering in the ambiguous, vague light of the night, “A single a and a single o, sharing a room together. And you can’t wait to climb into my bed in the middle of the night. If I don’t do something, wouldn’t I be sorry for letting down your expectations?”
Lu Tong stared at him expressionlessly for a while. He then bent his knee suddenly, and Qin Chu was killed by him in one shot3One-hit KO move. Qin Chu didn’t even have enough time to let out a scream and rolled directly to the edge of the bed.
Lu Tong remained puzzled even after pondering over it a hundred times, “Are you sick? You stayed up in the middle of the night and pretended to be here for half a day just to read lines to me? Does this make you really happy?”
Qin Chu was in so much pain that he couldn’t get up. He covered his stomach and looked at him. All the coolness he pretended to have was gone. All that was left was a milky4small voice like that of a kitten and ferocious grunt, “Can’t you do it a bit lightly?!”
Lu Tong sneered coldly, “If I hit you too lightly, I’m afraid I won’t be able to wake up your brain.”
Qin Chu rolled around on the bed several times, “I’m dying of pain!”
Lu Tong sneered, “It’s not going to end, is it?”
Qin Chu angrily sat up from the bed, “I think my stomach has been bruised by you. You’ll have to buy me an ice cream to ice it tomorrow.”
Oh, come on, still remembering this?
Lu Tong spoke, “How old are you?”
He reached out again and touched his glands.
Qin Chu naturally saw his movements.
“Can I help you?” He asked, crossing both his arms and assuming a haughty attitude5lit. to be in a high location, overlooking the scene below (idiom) / fig. to occupy a commanding position.
Lu Tong, “Forget it. I still remember your message to compatriots in Taiwan.”
Qin Chu, “Buy me two popsicles tomorrow, and I’ll do this favour for free.”
…… What the hell is he competing for?
Qin Chu reached out his hand and yanked Lu Tong over.
This time, instead of pushing Lu Tong onto the bed, he made him sit on the bed.
“You hold onto the bed.”
Lu Tong waved his hand, “No need. It’s just a temporary mark.”
Qin Chu looked at the back of his neck, where the glands were, and there was still a shallow tooth mark from his last bite. The colour was light now.
Lu Tong urged, “Hurry up. I have to sleep.”
Qin Chu asked him, “Do you know what the mark means or not?”
Lu Tong, “Don’t worry. I will never fall in love with you. Big brother, can you just give me a break?”
He really didn’t care.
Qin Chu bit the back of his neck as if venting his anger.
After the marking was over, Qin Chu brought Lu Tong over.
The other party was obviously sleepy from the start. And after receiving the alpha pheromone, his body went straight to sleep.
Like a kitten that had had enough of the sun.
“What the hell.” Qin Chu carried the person onto the bed.
He fell asleep during the mark. This man must be the first person to do it in history. Is Big Brother so unattractive? Don’t tell me he might be dreaming of someone else.
Lu Tong’s bed was on the opposite side. After he lay down, his head tilted to the side, facing Qin Chu. He was much better behaved when he was asleep than when he was awake. Lu Tong was a man who talked like a double-barrelled gun6with a sting in ones words and his mouth was full of ice. He was worthy of his title of “The Kaolin Flower”. Now when he was not talking, his eyebrows looked very gentle.
Qin Chu looked at his face and then at his lips.
Lu Tong’s lips were plump and moist, with a darker color. Coupled with his fair skin, the night light illuminated him with breathtaking beauty.
Qin Chu looked at it for a while and thought deeply: Temporary markers don’t have to rely on biting glands every time; can’t kissing be just as good?
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