Chapter 009 – Who can’t do it?
Under Xie Chenyang’s massage, the black bruise on Zhai Zhi’s back slowly disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye. Zhai Zhi’s stifled grunts also transformed into comfortable sighs. Xie Chenyang raised an eyebrow. “Can’t you be quiet?”
Waiting until the bruise on Zhai Zhi’s backside disappeared completely, Xie Chenyang tipped him over and lowered his head to apply the medicine to his arm and shoulder.
Zhai Zhi looked at the small porcelain bottle he had emptied. “Where did this come from?” He had helped Xie Chenyang change his clothes before bed last night and he did not see such a small bottle.
Xie Chenyang made up some nonsense. “This is my family heirloom; it’s been tucked under my pillow.”
This was the guest room he was staying in, so it wasn’t impossible to claim otherwise. Zhai Zhi did not pursue the matter.
Xie Chenyang looked at his tender and pale arms, and lightened his strength, asking, “How come your arms are so thin? Do you eat too little?”
Zhai Zhi stretched his right hand with teeth marks in front of him and blandly said, “Well, I don’t eat as much as you do. I have yet to eat anyone when I’m asleep.”
Thinking that he only had injuries on his mouth, while Zhai Zhi had injuries on his arm, hand, and waist, Xie Chenyang was a little sheepish. After seeing the marks on Zhai Zhi’s arms almost disappear, he hurriedly got up. “I’ll go and cook for you.”
Zhai Zhi watched his slightly flustered back as he left, then put away the small porcelain vial that had been set aside and got up to go into the bathroom.
—- Downstairs in the kitchen. —-
System: “Don’t you want to change your clothes first?”
Xie Chenyang rolled up the sleeves of his pajamas. “This is fine. Now, tell me the cooking steps for making a delicious feast for my brother.”
System: “…okay.”
Zhai Zhi changed his clothes and came down. When he saw the abundance of food on the table, he was a bit surprised: “You actually know how to cook?”
Xie Chenyang boldly proclaimed, “I’m good at everything.”
After they ate, Zou Hao arrived. The corner of his eye twitched when he saw the wound on Xie Chenyang’s mouth.
Zhai Zhi: “Ah-Yang, go to my room and pick a suit to change into. Let’s go check out our new company.”
“The entertainment company? It’s only been a day and you already have one?
“Yes, now hurry up and get changed.”
Xie Chenyang looked at the dishes left on the table. “These…”
“Auntie will come to collect them later.”
“Okay!”
—–
While Xie Chenyang changed into a smart-looking suit and returned downstairs, Zou Hao had already told Zhai Zhi all the information about the company that he had acquired. Coincidentally, it was on the same street as Feiyang Entertainment.
Zhai Zhi wanted to acquire a company, so naturally, Zou Hao refused to settle for a small company. What he obtained was a rich second-generation toy company. Recently, it happened that the fuerdai1 Second Generation Rich 富二代 fù èr dài children of entrepreneurs who became wealthy under Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms in the 1980s had gotten bored of it, and Zou Hao was quick to make an offer, so the company was sold to him. This company covered the entire building, and all the staff of various departments was still present.
—- Conference Room. —-
Zhai Zhi and the fuerdai signed the acquisition agreement. Since the company was wholly owned by Mr. Fuerdai, he didn’t have to communicate with other shareholders, so the transfer took place very quickly.
The legal owner was changed to Zhai Zhi, and Xie Chenyang became a shareholder with forty-five percent of the shares. Zhai Zhi kept the other fifty-five percent.
The company name was changed to Ziyang2The name Zhiyang implies elegance, self-awareness, and rich emotions. It also implies extreme intelligence, quick response, fame and fortune, and a great reputation. The first impression of the name Zhiyang: Attractive and focused — Baidu Entertainment.
—–
It was already dark when Xie Chenyang and Zhai Zhi returned home. The dining table had been cleared and the refrigerator had been restocked with fresh ingredients, but there was no dinner prepared. Xie Chenyang rubbed his stomach. “Is your Auntie only responsible for cleaning?”
“Mmm, I don’t like to eat what strangers cook.” Zhai Zhi unbuttoned two of his collar buttons. “You rest for a while. I’ll go cook.”
Xie Chenyang followed him into the kitchen. “Why did you give me shares? I don’t have enough money to buy them.”
Zhai Zhi did not raise his head. “It’s a gift, don’t you want it?”
“Want it.” Xie Chen Yang didn’t talk to him politely. “Brother, it’s more than enough!” I’ll give you my inheritance when I finish my mission!
Zhai Zhi put down the ingredients in his hands and looked back at him, “Li Xuyang, do you really not understand or are you just pretending to not understand?” Zhai Zhi stalked up to him, almost pressed up against him. “You’ve been married, can’t you recognize this?”
Xie Chenyang: “Could it be…”
Zhai Zhi’s eyes narrowed slightly.
“You like me?”
Zhai Zhi snorted. “Isn’t it quite obvious?”
Even the system was a little surprised. “Are you sure you’re straight? According to what you’ve done together during this period of time, it is rather obvious.”
Xie Chenyang was a bit embarrassed. “I didn’t have any idea.” [In my understanding, it doesn’t matter the gender when it comes to mutual love, so that’s why I didn’t think it’d matter to you.]
System: “… ” You don’t look like someone who understands when you do these things! And isn’t the setting that you’re straight?
Zhai Zhi slightly tilted his head; any closer and they would’ve been able to kiss. “Have I not been obvious enough?”
Xie Chenyang reached out and gently pushed him, creating some distance, and truthfully said, “Our way of getting along is similar to that of a good friend of mine.”
Zhai Zhi coolly said, “Which friend? To be able to hug and share the same bed?”
Xie Chenyang: [Eh, system, which one of my friends was it?]
System: “How would I know?”
Xie Chenyang locked his eyes with Zhai Zhi, staring intently at him and licked his lips. “Hugging each other, sleeping on the same bed…don’t all good friends do that?”
This really wasn’t his fault.
Zhai Zhi hadn’t said that he… liked him before, ah?
Zhai Zhi gave him a look before he turned away to continue cleaning up the ingredients, and lightly asked, “Do you still want the shares then?”
Xie Chenyang didn’t have the courage to accept as he had earlier, and hesitantly asked, “Is it… a dowry3property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage.?”
Zhai Zhi: “It’s a bride price4a sum of money or quantity of goods given to a bride’s family by that of the groom, especially in tribal societies..”
Xie Chenyang leaned on the counter, his hands folded over his chest. “That doesn’t work. You can give a dowry, but you can’t give a bride price.”
Zhai Zhi laughed in exasperation. “Between you and Cen He, were you sleeping with him5Asking if he was the top in his last relationship?”
Xie Chenyang searched his memory and confidently answered, “I haven’t slept with anyone.”
Zhai Zhi couldn’t help but glance back at him, “Are you teasing me?”
“Why would I tease you?” Xie Chenyang tried to explain patiently, “You’re wooing me, so I’m being honest with you.”
System: “No revealing my existence or your true identity, oh.”
Xie Chenyang: [Did I reveal it?]
System: “…” Not yet.
Zhai Zhi couldn’t help but glance at Xie Chenyang’s lower body. “You and Cen He dated for four years in college, got married after graduation, and you haven’t done it even once?”
Xie Chenyang exclaimed in disdain, “I haven’t done it.” The one who had done it was Li Xuyang.
Zhai Zhi: “I don’t believe you.”
Xie Chenyang impatiently snapped, “If you don’t believe me, then just forget it.”
Zhai Zhi: “Unless you let me test it.”
Xie Chenyang: “How can you test it?”
Zhai Zhi came forward and embraced him.
Xie Chenyang patted his back and asked curiously, “So this is all there is to test?”
Zhai Zhi: “… Be gentler.”
“Haha, I forgot that you’re rather fragile.” Xie Chenyang felt that he definitely hadn’t genuinely beaten Zhai Zhi when he was drunk. It must have been because he was too delicate to even withstand a random knock.
Zhai Zhi sighed softly before reaching out to cover his eyes and kissing him.
Xie Chenyang: [There is something I would like to say]
The system perfunctorily said, “En, I’m listening.”
[My mouth hurts]
System: “…” It should.
Xie Chenyang is not the kind of person who showed weakness when he experienced a bit of pain, and when Zhai Zhi tried to penetrate his lips, he opened his mouth rather generously.
Zhai Zhi could feel his rawness and narrowed his eyes.
Zhai Zhi was leading from the front, but later on, Xie Chenyang felt that he had been tempting him for too long, and counterattacked, emulating as he did so.
First kiss accomplished.
Zhai Zhi closed his eyes and lowered his head to lean on his arms. He took a few deep breaths, trying his best to calm the surges in his heart until he managed to make his expression appear calm and unruffled before he raised his head, save for the yet-fade blush that still lingered on his face.
Xie Chenyang touched his blushing face. “Is the test over? I’m hungry.”
Zhai Zhi: “…” He backed away with a blank face. “You go out. I’ll cook.”
Xie Chenyang turned around and headed out. “Well, make it quick then.”
Zhai Zhi picked up a knife with a blank face.
As soon as Xie Chenyang walked out of the kitchen, he went straight to the bathroom and muttered before the mirror, “Bleeding bleeding bleeding.”
After flushing his mouth with cool water for a while, Xie Chenyang sadly asked, “System, is there really no medicine that can make my mouth get better faster?”
System: “No.” There is, but I don’t want to give it to you.
Xie Chenyang propped his hands on the sink and gazed at himself in the mirror, a little annoyed. “System, do you think he’ll cry when I have to leave after completing the mission if we get together?”
System: “Why would you have to leave?”
Xie Chenyang: “Don’t we leave after completing the mission?”
System: “The simplified description of our mission is actually just four words: die without ever forgiving.”
Xie Chenyang: “Yeah, I know.”
System: “Literally, until death, do not forgive… Is that clear?”
Got it.
“System, ah…”
“What now?”
“Say, I treat him like a good brother, so why does he want to sleep with me?”
The system laughed coldly: “As a good brother? A brother you just kissed so happily.”
Xie Chenyang: “…I feel it’s a bit strange. The first time I saw him, I had a very familiar feeling, that’s why I was able to treat him as a brother in a matter of minutes. When he asked to court me, I unexpectedly had a feeling that it was as it should be.”
“To say I like him… I don’t know… but to reject him, I don’t really want to… System, are you still there?” Xie Chenyang had been chattering for half a day without a response and let out a sigh. The system still couldn’t be relied on, ah. “I always feel like I’ve been single for ten thousand years, and when I’m suddenly pursued, there’s a hidden joy.”
System: “Piss off.”
“Oh, there you are.” The system went completely silent this time, and wouldn’t come out no matter how much Xie Chenyang provoked it. He regretfully went back to his room, pulled out his cell phone, and searched the web.
#How to get along with your fiancée?#
#How to treat a boyfriend?#
#Do’s and don’ts of falling in love for the first time.#
#Notes for the first relationship#
It wasn’t until Zhai Zhi came up to call him for dinner that he closed the tab with a renewed sense of purpose.
After dinner, Zhai Zhi didn’t leave the dishes for Auntie to clean up the next day. Rather, he collected and cleaned the dishes himself.
When he saw that he was going to go back to his own room, Xie Chenyang tugged on his hand. “We’re in a relationship now, but you still want to sleep in separate rooms?”
Zhai Zhi looked at him with a complicated face. “You’re not divorced yet.”
Xie Chenyang: “I’ll divorce when I get back what belongs to the Li family.”
Zhai Zhi prepared himself psychologically: “OK.”
Xie Chenyang had his shower first.
Zhai Zhi took a longer bath than Xie Chenyang and got himself ready. When he went out, Xie Chenyang beckoned him over. Zhai Zhi didn’t try to make a fuss and went over to lie down against him.
Xie Chenyang tucked him in as he deliberately lightened his touch and patted his shoulder through the quilt. “Go to sleep, good night.”
Say good night to your boyfriend every day get √6A method, object, skill, knowledge acquisition. Get means to obtain, √ means check. example: New skill get√ (get new skill) Girlfriend gei√ (I have a girlfriend now, hahahaha) 100 points get√ (I got 100 points!!! I am so smart) [Simply put, it means to get, the usage is noun + get√ ] —- Baidu
Zhai Zhi: “?” That’s it? After determining that Xie Chenyang did not have any other intentions and had already closed his eyes in preparation for sleep, an absurd feeling rose in Zhai Zhi’s heart.
In this moment, he suddenly believed that perhaps the person in front of him and Cen He really hadn’t done anything. He originally hadn’t really believed him. After being together for several years, they hadn’t done it once? Either Li Xuyang couldn’t or Cen He couldn’t.
Zhai Zhi’s heart suddenly felt cold. He stretched out his hand to Xie Chenyang’s lower body experimentally. He was not blocked. He squeezed.
Xie Chenyang clamped down on his hand. “What do you think you’re doing?”
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