HD Chapter 11

When he woke up the next day, Zhou Mu was no longer in bed.

Xu Zhi sat up with squinted eyes, touched the digital clock on the bedside, and looked at it. It was 1:20 in the afternoon.

Zhou Mu’s robe was neatly folded and placed on the bedside table, as if nothing happened last night.

Xu Zhi endlessly thought that although Zhou Mu kissed him, touched him, and maybe wanted to have sex with him, one day, when he opened his eyes, those robes wouldn’t even be in the room.

Xu Zhi took the water cup from the bedside table, drank the warm water Zhou Mu had prepared for him, and walked out of the bedroom barefoot.

Zhou Mu was busy in the kitchen. When he saw him coming out, he looked back and asked, “Are you awake?”

“Yeah,” Xu Zhi responded, and he wandered to the kitchen without energy.

Zhou Mu looked down at his bare feet, took off his slippers, and kicked them to his feet.

Xu Zhi looked down for two seconds and put it on.

There was a sizzling sound from the kitchen, along with the aroma of boiling vegetable oil and eggs. Xu Zhi didn’t know how to cook, but it didn’t stop him from knowing that Zhou Mu was frying poached eggs.

He walked over, making no reservations, and made a request, “The eggs must be fully cooked.”

“I know,” Zhou Mu said, then picked up the wooden spoon hanging on the wall, opened the lid of an enamel pot, and stirred it.

Only then did Xu Zhi realize that Zhou Mu had also cooked porridge.

Similar to oatmeal.

Xu Zhi walked over with great interest, stood next to Zhou Mu, watched Zhou Mu stir around in the small pot, and confirmed that it was oatmeal milk porridge.

“You can cook?” Xu Zhi asked in surprise.

“Yes,” Zhou Mu took out the spoon, held it next to the pot, and then put the spoon into the bowl, “Wash your hands and eat.”

Xu Zhi ignored him. He picked up a spoon, imitated Zhou Mu, and stirred in the pot. Seeing the thick oatmeal milk porridge making circles and steaming, he said, pleased, “It’s quite simple.”

“Yes,” Zhou Mu took the spoon from his hand and put it down, then pushed his shoulder to the sink and said helplessly, “It’s very simple, so wash your hands and eat.”

“Why are you anxious?” Xu Zhi’s unreasonable behavior often comes without warning. In this family, Xu Zhi is the only one who can be impatient, and it’s not Zhou Mu’s turn.

“Aren’t you hungry?” Zhou Mu asked, “You slept until now.”

Xu Zhi was indeed a bit hungry, but Zhou Mu’s imposing manner entering the room displeased him. Therefore, he would rather not eat and make it clear to Zhou Mu who the real master of the house was.

Although the two of them kissed inseparably last night, it was Xu Zhi’s request, and it had nothing to do with Zhou Mu.

“I can eat whenever I want,” Xu Zhi said.

It is easy to fully understand Xu Zhi’s temper. There is only one rule to please Xu Zhi: you must use a very gentle tone when talking to Xu Zhi.

Otherwise, Xu Zhi would easily get angry, although it would be of no benefit to either person.

So Zhou Mu took Xu Zhi’s hand, pulled him in front of him, hugged him from behind, and turned on the faucet.

He washed each of Xu Zhi’s fingers very carefully and then pulled out a piece of tissue paper to carefully wipe away the water droplets.

It wasn’t until Xu Zhi squirmed uncomfortably in his arms that Zhou Mu gently pinched his fingers, as if on purpose, and whispered in his ear, “Master Xu, do you want to eat now?”

Xu Zhi thought about it for a moment. He didn’t know when his defense mechanism against Zhou Mu collapsed. In the beginning, when Zhou Mu wanted to get closer, Xu Zhi would yell at him to stop.

He also remembered that when Zhou Mu kissed him last night, the two of them were lying on their sides on the bed. Zhou Mu twisted his chin and asked him to turn his head to lick and bite him. While kissing him, he forced Xu Zhi to call his name over and over again.

He looked obsessed, as if he really couldn’t live without Xu Zhi.

Xu Zhi thought, unconsciously sticking out the tip of his tongue and licking his lower lip.

Then he heard Zhou Mu pause for breath behind him, and then he was turned around by Zhou Mu’s shoulders, standing face to face with Zhou Mu.

He saw Zhou Mu’s Adam’s apple twitching, bobbing down from top to bottom.

It was another long, wet kiss, and Xu Zhi even heard the sound of his own swallowing, as well as Zhou Mu’s uncontrollable hum.

Xu Zhi thought that if Zhou Mu really wanted to have sex with him, he could consider it.

Zhou Mu walked away a little and asked Xu Zhi, “Do you want to eat now?”

Xu Zhi blinked and turned his head away from Zhou Mu, “Go and make arrangements.”

Zhou Mu’s cooking skills are very good. His fried eggs are fully cooked but not overdone, providing Xu Zhi’s favorite texture. The oatmeal milk porridge tastes better than the one in the store downstairs.

Regarding this, Xu Zhi was very satisfied.

“The porridge is very good,” Xu Zhi was willing to praise Zhou Mu when he was happy. He drank the porridge slowly, “The eggs are also good.”

While talking, Xu Zhi thought about the cold attitude of the porridge shop owner towards him. He felt annoyed for a few seconds and then added, “I won’t go there to buy anymore. You’ll be the one to make it from now on.”

Zhou Mu didn’t become proud because of Xu Zhi’s praise. He seemed to be thinking about something, lowered his head to drink the porridge, and responded with a deep hum.

While the two were eating, Xu Zhi’s phone rang. It was Wen Shuyao.

“Shuyao,” Xu Zhi still had porridge in his mouth. He pressed the speaker on and put the phone on the table, “What’s wrong?”

“Xiao Zhi,” Wen Shuyao’s tone sounded a bit unpleasant, “Did I not tell you to come to the hospital today?”

When he took Zhou Mu to the hospital for a check-up that day, Wen Shuyao said that he would spare an afternoon for him in two days and asked Xu Zhi to come to the hospital for a formal psychological consultation.

Xu Zhi didn’t want Zhou Mu’s identity to be revealed at the time, so he agreed perfunctorily and then fled with Zhou Mu.

“I didn’t say I wouldn’t go,” Xu Zhi said guiltily.

“It’s almost two o’clock; when will you come?” Wen Shuyao himself is handsome and personable, but when he speaks, he is sarcastic.

Xu Zhi wanted to assert himself a bit and, at the same time, didn’t want to upset Wen Shuyao. So, he began to act stubborn again, “Can you give me free psychological counseling then?”

Wen Shuyao snorted coldly and said mercilessly, “I see that you were quite willing to reimburse your lover for the medical examination fee.”

Xu Zhi subconsciously raised his head, and Zhou Mu looked at him with an inquiring look.

He awkwardly said he would be there soon, hung up the phone, lowered his head, and continued to drink porridge.

“You told Doctor Wen that we have this kind of relationship?” Zhou Mu stopped eating and looked at Xu Zhi teasingly.

“He said it himself,” Xu Zhi loudly proved his innocence, trying his best to distance himself from such remarks, “Besides, you will have to pay back the money I spent on you in the future!”

“I don’t have money,” Zhou Mu leaned back on the chair, innocently repeating the words he had said to Wen Shuyao at the hospital, “I even wear your underwear.”

Xu Zhi stood up suddenly and shouted with a red face, “Then go work and make money. Don’t even think about missing a penny.”

“I don’t have an ID,” Zhou Mu lowered his eyes and looked at Xu Zhi, “If I go out, I will be arrested. You have to be responsible for me.”

For the first time, Xu Zhi felt that there would really be a situation that would make him speechless, so he opened his mouth and stopped talking.

“How about this,” Zhou Mu proposed a solution, “I work for you, and you pay me a salary?”

Xu Zhi found his footing and quickly sobered up.

He set a billing standard for Zhou Mu, stipulating that Zhou Mu would be paid 100 yuan¹currency of China every time he served Xu Zhi. Excluding the remainder, Zhou Mu needed to serve Xu Zhi 526 times.

“Am I that expensive?” Zhou Mu stood up and walked to Xu Zhi, raising his eyebrows and asking.

Xu Zhi lowered his head and did not reply.

Zhou Mu asked again, “Is kissing included in Zhou Mu’s remuneration for serving Xu Zhi?”

Zhou Mu’s voice was low, and it sounded like he was bewitching Xu Zhi.

Xu Zhi thought that when he was very young, a girl in his class brought a fairy tale book with a story in it.

The general idea is that in order to lure the lost girl, the goblin who lives deep in the forest will sing beautiful songs and say beautiful words, so that the girl will willingly stay with him.

Xu Zhi doesn’t remember the end of the story, but there is a high probability that the prince saved the fallen girl.

But Xu Zhi was not an innocent girl, and there was no prince to save him, so he was deceived.

Xu Zhi looked up at Zhou Mu and said to him, “Then forget it.”

“How is the salary calculated?” Zhou Mu took a step closer.

Xu Zhi didn’t resist and asked as he wanted, “How do you want to calculate it?”

“Then one yuan.” Zhou Mu bent down and touched Xu Zhi’s noses. Their lips touched each other from time to time as they spoke.

Zhou Mu said, “Xu Zhi, I’m not very expensive with you.”

After saying that, he kissed Xu Zhi.

Weakly pushing Zhou Mu’s shoulder, Xu Zhi thought absentmindedly, “Zhou Mu doesn’t seem to have said anything particularly appealing.”

Xu Zhi simply walked into the forest.

While Zhou Mu continued to kiss him gently, he quickly calculated. According to this billing standard, Zhou Mu would need to repay a total of fifty-two thousand six hundred and fifty-two times.

Not a lot.

Before Xu Zhi went out that day, Zhou Mu paid back a total of 3 yuan.

 

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t/n: Merry Christmas guys! Wishing you a joyful day and more blessings to come! Enjoy and thanks for reading ^^

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