The golf club in his hand was raised high, swinging through the air with a whooshing sound.
Bai Shuijin’s movements were so fast, it was as if he wanted their lives.
The three siblings went silent. This was a life-or-death game.
Fortunately, the venue was spacious, and during the long five minutes, none of the facilities inside the golf hall were hit.
Bai Shuijin’s “tag-as-ghost” game ended in failure, and he took off his tie.
Wang Huanxiu, Wang Muguang, and Wang Zhenzhu stood across from him, panting heavily.
There was also a victory condition in the ghost game: after tagging the first person, if you didn’t reveal your identity as the ghost and kept playing, eliminating everyone present within a minute would count as a win.
Bai Shuijin intended to win quickly, but he hadn’t tagged even one person.
“You guys dodge so fast.”
The three siblings: “…”
Life and death came down to a single instant.
Who would have thought that a small game meant to liven the atmosphere would end up turning into an escape challenge.
Bai Shuijin lost the game, but he was not depressed at all…ending the game was actually the best outcome for him right now.
The night’s schedule ended there. Sitting in the car, Wang Muguang was so exhausted he felt drained; without a seatbelt, he could slide right down under the seat and blend in with the floor mat.
Bai Shuijin sat next to him. “Little Uncle, you were so nimble when you dodged during the game. Several times I heard your voice, but I just couldn’t hit you.”
Wang Muguang: “…”
So it hadn’t been his imagination when he was being chased just now.
Bai Shuijin: “Do you have any tips for playing the game?”
“No tips, just enough will to survive.”
Bai Shuijin nodded. “Mm, the will to win.”
Wang Muguang closed his eyes in grief. Tonight, he had nearly died at the tender age of twenty-two.
Thinking back, it was still terrifying…the Little Shorty’s short height had huge destructive power.
When they returned home, Bai Shuijin followed Wang Huanxiu up to the fourth floor, closed the bedroom door, and instantly turned into a deep-sea octopus lunging at Wang Huanxiu.
“Laogong-ge, look, look.”
Bai Shuijin leaned in, his body temperature heightened from drinking earlier that night.
Wang Huanxiu pretended not to understand. “Look at what?”
Of course, it was his gift! He had been waiting eagerly the whole night and finally they returned home.
The reason he had worked so hard in the game earlier was for this moment.
He had been thinking about it all through dinner, singing, and games, unable to fit anything else in his head.
“Do you like it?”
Wang Huanxiu took off his coat, revealing the clothes he had worn earlier when picking Bai Shuijin up from the dance studio.
With only the two of them in the bedroom, Bai Shuijin was so excited he stuttered, “Li… like.”
Wang Huanxiu didn’t often dress like this, so Bai Shuijin decided to classify this look as a “collector’s skin”.
He wished his brain was a printer so he could print out this image right now.
“Do you like this”….the man’s long fingers pointed at his chest, waist, and abs…“or do you like this”…he moved his finger up toward his face.
Bai Shuijin answered crisply, “I like them all.”
Clearly, this was not the answer Wang Huanxiu wanted.
Bai Shuijin opened his arms, wanting to wrap them around Wang Huanxiu’s strong waist, but the latter dodged neatly.
Bai Shuijin pounced at empty air, stumbled a bit, and missed. Now he liked it even more. He loved forced love the most.
“You have to pick one.” Wang Huanxiu’s eyes calculated shrewdly. “Do you like me, or do you like my body?”
The relationship between the two of them has always been unclear, and every time Bai Shuijin crossed the line, it would be brushed off lightly, and their relationship would never grow closer.
It would just stay stuck at the physical level, which wastes time meaninglessly.
What Wang Huanxiu pursued was the final result. No matter how smooth the negotiations were, without real execution, it was just an empty shell, only leading to loss.
Bai Shuijin had just been drinking, not turning stupid.
Hearing the sharp question, he licked his lips guiltily. “Laogong-ge, if I say I like your body, will you stop letting me touch it?”
Wang Huanxiu didn’t answer directly. “What do you think?”
Bai Shuijin leaned over for a hug. “I guess you’ll let me.”
“So smart.”
Bai Shuijin’s little face flushed with excitement.
Wang Huanxiu’s smile turned cold. “Wrong guess.”
Bai Shuijin: “…”
He removed Bai Shuijin’s hands from around his waist. “I’m going to shower.”
Even his tone turned cold.
Falling from heaven to hell, Bai Shuijin panicked. “But… but I haven’t looked yet, I haven’t unwrapped my gift, laogong-ge.”
Wang Huanxiu bent down to meet his eyes, his black pupils like a demon from hell tempting people to do evil. “This gift is for display only, just for looking, not for unwrapping.”
Bai Shuijin swallowed hard.
It was obviously just that his answer didn’t please the other party, so he changed the rules on the spot and wouldn’t let him touch.
“You didn’t say that at the start.”
Wang Huanxiu narrowed his eyes. “I changed my mind.”
Straightening up, he ignored Bai Shuijin’s disappointed eyes, picked up a newly bought bathrobe, and went into the bathroom.
“I’m going to shower. Whether you watch or not is up to you.”
A display gift was still fine to look at, Wang Huanxiu wouldn’t refuse that.
For the first time, Bai Shuijin deeply felt how bad Wang Huanxiu was, the kind of bad that was evil to the core.
No wonder he was a villain. He was born to be a villain, it would be a shame if he didn’t become one.
What kind of gift was it if you could only look at it but not touch it!
Bai Shuijin was not spineless. He won’t watch!
He sat sulking on the bed, staring at the pitch-black night outside the window, his whole body radiating “I’m not happy”.
A few minutes passed, but no one came to coax him, so he turned around.
Recently, Wang Huanxiu had always taken good care of his emotions, good or bad, accepting them all like an emotional trash bin.
Now that he wasn’t coaxing him, Bai Shuijin felt a bit uncomfortable.
‘This is what he calls “liking”!’ Bai Shuijin kicked the bed frame. It didn’t look like he liked him at all.
Ten minutes later, Bai Shuijin stood by the bathroom door, staring at the doorknob.
‘It wasn’t locked, right?’
Even though he muttered about not watching, it would be a waste not to watch.
Bai Shuijin’s skin was already good, and recently, with all the dance practice and heavy exercise, his metabolism had improved. With all this, his whole body was fair and rosy.
With some force, the doorknob turned.
The bathroom door wasn’t locked, and it opened easily.
Bai Shuijin’s calm heart suddenly grew tense, this was his first time seeing Wang Huanxiu naked.
As a dance student, he was obsessive about physique, not just his own, but others’ too.
Before, when watching college boys play basketball, he would only pick the ones with good figures to watch; those without good posture and form were automatically ignored.
When the door opened, Bai Shuijin hesitated in place.
The room’s soundproofing was very good. Outside, he didn’t hear anything. But now, with the door cracked open, the dense sound of water poured into his ears.
He didn’t even have to go in to imagine Wang Huanxiu standing under the shower.
The bathroom was so big you could fit a swimming pool in there. The custom bathtub was king-size and absurdly luxurious.
Bai Shuijin opened the door and tiptoed in. He was here to see his gift; since it had been prepared for him, looking was only right.
Steam drifted in the air, the temperature higher than outside. The sunken bathtub was full of hot water for soaking later.
While running the water, Wang Huanxiu had thrown in a few bath bombs.
He had used bathing products before too, but only the liquid kind, poured directly into the tub by servants when filling it.
The bath bomb was bought by Bai Shuijin himself after moving into this room. At this moment, the steaming bathwater showed an ocean-like azure blue.
The bath bomb was his favorite fresh fragrance. Bai Shuijin had bought many, with every scent available. He had used this particular scent once before, liked it very much, and had not been willing to use it again, planning to finish the other scents first and save this one for last to enjoy.
Now Wang Huanxiu casually threw in several at once.
Bai Shuijin was heartbroken. But before his anger could rise, his gaze shifted and landed on Wang Huanxiu, who was showering under the massive water curtain.
His eyes automatically locked in place.
Wang Huanxiu’s back was to him. From behind, the view of his spine made his sex appeal even more direct; it was broad and flat, the curve of his shoulders extending down to strong and powerful arms. Water droplets kept splashing against his body, and both hands were placed at his narrow, strong waist. He had his head slightly tilted back, hair pushed back, and his brow bones were like towering mountains.
His waist looked powerful. Back in class, the dance teacher had told them that a stable lower body was the key to unleashing the power of dance.
It was obvious at a glance that Wang Huanxiu’s waist and abdomen were as hard as stone, even more noticeable when he moved normally.
Bai Shuijin had ridden him once before, but now it felt as if he had forgotten the sensation completely.
At this moment, the other party turned around, and their eyes met by accident.
Wang Huanxiu did not seem particularly surprised by his arrival.
Instead, it was Bai Shuijin who felt guilty, like a mouse caught stealing oil.
He was here to see the gift. There was nothing to feel guilty about.
Bai Shuijin steadied his resolve again. When he looked back, Wang Huanxiu was continuing to shower as if nothing had happened.
He just didn’t back turn around. And because he didn’t turn back, the parts usually hidden by clothing were now fully and directly striking Bai Shuijin’s vision.
Bai Shuijin was startled. This was his first time seeing another person’s…he normally didn’t have the habit of looking at other people’s birds, even if his classmates loved to compare. Sometimes, just the size of the pants could give it away.
His eyes became dizzy…he saw a wild goose.
Bai Shuijin’s heart skipped, and his face flushed. As expected, in terms of appearance, Wang Huanxiu was flawless.
The sound of running water stopped. Wang Huanxiu turned off the shower, walked down the steps inside the bathroom, and sat in the central bathtub to soak, as if Bai Shuijin was not even there.
Bai Shuijin stood frozen at the bathroom door, like an elementary school kid being punished to stand.
He wanted to leave, but his eyes couldn’t move away.
Wang Huanxiu didn’t make him wait long. After soaking enough, he stood up from the water, dried himself, and put on a bathrobe. Before leaving, he didn’t forget to put the collar back on. His body carried the fragrance of the bath bomb Bai Shuijin liked.
With the black bathrobe hanging open and the collar in, Wang Huanxiu’s aura made people want to submit…but the dog collar on his neck silently told others that he was the submissive one.
He strode over to Bai Shuijin. His dark eyes slid down from Bai Shuijin’s face to his lower abdomen.
Feeling his gaze, Bai Shuijin’s face turned red, and he quickly used his hands to block.
He had a physical reaction.
He liked men to begin with.
“Laogong-ge, I…”
Wang Huanxiu acted like he hadn’t seen it. “Settle it yourself and then come out to sleep.”
Bai Shuijin: “…”
Alone in the bathroom, Bai Shuijin felt he had embarrassed himself.
There is a sword hanging over one’s head when it comes to “lust”, he just never learned his lesson.
After Wang Huanxiu left, without the visual impact, Bai Shuijin soon calmed down. He had been out all day today, and after showering, he left the bathroom.
In the room, Wang Huanxiu had already turned off the lights. For Bai Shuijin to see his way back, he had left the nightlight embedded in the gaps of the wall panels.
The bedside lamp was also on, but at the lowest setting, dim and hazy, casting a faint glow in the night.
Wang Huanxiu’s handsome face was faintly visible in the dark.
Bai Shuijin kicked off his shoes and climbed onto the bed. When he got closer, he found that Wang Huanxiu was lying on his side, watching him, and he felt heat rise uncontrollably again.
Thinking about how he couldn’t touch the abs to fall asleep tonight, Bai Shuijin awkwardly turned his back, giving him the cold back of his head.
His body was hot and stifled.
He gritted his teeth and closed his eyes. Soon, the heat subsided, and he began to sing lullabies in his head.
He wished Zhou Gong would come with sleeping pills to fetch him.
But heaven didn’t grant wishes. Once he closed his eyes, images of Wang Huanxiu showering automatically filled his mind, and he became restless.
He was used to sleeping pressed against someone and now he couldn’t sleep within them. Unless he slept alone, but he had no reason to drive Wang Huanxiu away.
If he moved over now, his abnormal state would be discovered easily.
Maybe… he should take another shower.
Bai Shuijin sat up, but seeing Wang Huanxiu’s face made him completely change his mind.
He passed his exam today, so there should be a reward. He crawled over to the other. “Laogong-ge, I want to sleep while touching you.”
He dragged his pillow over so that both of their pillows touched.
“Okay?”
Bai Shuijin could act spoiled, but Wang Huanxiu ignored it this time. “My sleep has been light lately.”
He refused without a ripple.
After being rejected all night, a wave of indescribable grievance welled up in Bai Shuijin’s chest.
“You promised to give me a reward.”
Wang Huanxiu’s heart trembled. “As long as you say you like me, I’ll let you touch.”
Bai Shuijin was silent.
But the other party gave him no chance to retreat. “Otherwise, what am I to you?”
Bai Shuijin’s lips trembled. Deep down, he selfishly wanted to maintain the current relationship with Wang Huanxiu.
That way, even if their feelings soured in the future, they could still live together like family, without separating.
He would never hate his laogong-ge for the rest of his life.
But he was afraid that his laogong-ge would hate him, and he was worried about being thrown out of this home.
Wang Huanxiu didn’t like him before, but he was used to that and could bear it. It was easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it was difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. He also enjoyed Wang Huanxiu’s current feelings, and even felt a bit addicted to it.
But what if he stopped liking him in the future? What if he didn’t want to talk to him, or even look at him?
Bai Shuijin’s lips trembled.
Wang Huanxiu originally just wanted to hear one “I like you”, but seeing Bai Shuijin’s aggrieved expression under the dim light, his pupils contracted and his body moved faster than his brain, pulling the other person into his arms.
Bai Shuijin buried half of his face in his shoulder, and angrily pressed his head into the man’s chin.
If it had been half a year ago, he would never have dared to do this.
“Laogong-ge, say you like me.”
Wang Huanxiu laughed in exasperation. This person wouldn’t say “I like you” to him, yet now was demanding it from him.
But seeing Bai Shuijin’s pleading little face, his voice softened. “I like you.”
“Like me forever and ever.”
Feeling something pressing against him, Wang Huanxiu’s big hand slid into Bai Shuijin’s pajama pants. “I will like you forever and ever.”
As his hand moved, Bai Shuijin’s breathing stopped. He grabbed Wang Huanxiu’s arm tightly, and his eyes gradually lost focus.
“Laogong-ge.”
In the dim room, only his helpless, hazy call remained.
Hearing it, Wang Huanxiu’s heart was stirred, and he simply leaned down and sealed his lips.
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“How is the search for the people going?” Wang Pingtian asked.
There will be a banquet at the Vanity Fair in a few days. Wang Huanxiu would definitely attend and that would be his chance to strike.
Assistant: “The manpower is already in place. For that aspect, I specially found a model with a good figure and is somewhat famous in the fashion world. Their conditions will also help stir up attention.”
Wang Heng didn’t plan to join forces with him, but Wang Pingtian hadn’t given up on creating a sex scandal for Wang Huanxiu.
For someone like Wang Huanxiu, as long as things were not nailed down, anything that happened could be turned around by him, so Wang Pingtian planned to really drug him.
Apart from being strong, this drug had almost no side effects on the body. Even if Wang Huanxiu pursued the matter, he would not be able to do anything to him.
He did not know what kind of person Wang Huanxiu liked. At first, he wanted to find someone plain-looking, to take the opportunity to humiliate him and laugh at him for being able to eat anything.
But thinking about it, when the news came out, someone good-looking would get more attention. The longer the news stayed popular, the greater the impact on Wang Huanxiu and the company.
What he wanted was for Wang Huanxiu to be entangled in scandals and completely ruined.
All these years, Wang Huanxiu had been preventing him from entering the company, and he had long held a grudge. What was more, earlier he had even angered his father Wang Wang into the hospital.
As for drugging Wang Huanxiu, Wang Pingtian felt no guilt at all. What kind of bad thing was this? It was just giving his cousin a chance for a romantic encounter, and then making this romantic encounter public.
The day of the cocktail party was a Sunday. Bai Shuijin happened to have no classes and was resting for a day. Because the dance teacher had to return to the country to handle some procedures, he had a rare two days off.
Hearing there was a cocktail party, he planned to go join the fun.
Wang Muguang also went along. But Wang Huanxiu went directly from the company to the cocktail party venue and did not go with them.
When he arrived at the venue, Bai Shuijin saw many fashionable people, and there were also many celebrities and models present today.
Almost every boss had a companion by their side, behaving intimately. This made him think of Wang Huanxiu. Would Wang Huanxiu always bring a companion when attending such occasions?
A few days ago, the two of them had even done something naughty, and the other party helped him with his hand. But since then, things between them had become a bit awkward, and they spoke less than usual.
Bai Shuijin did not know how to face him. When talking to him, his words would come out clumsy, and whenever he saw him, he would think of that night.
While he was lost in thought, someone tapped his shoulder. He turned his head to look at Wang Muguang, who had tapped him. “What’s wrong?”
Wang Muguang pointed at a tall, strong model not far away. “Is my figure as good as his?”
“Little Uncle, please.”
“Please what?”
“Please do some self-consumption first.”
“…”
Seeing his gaze wandering, Wang Muguang asked, “What are you looking at?”
“Nothing, just thinking about some things.”
“What things?”
“Even if I told you, you wouldn’t understand.”
Wang Muguang became interested. “How would you know I don’t understand if you don’t tell me?”
Bai Shuijin: “Under what circumstances can a person take ten stairs in one step?”
Wang Muguang: “…”
Indeed, he did not understand. This time he just pretended not to hear it.
In fact, what Bai Shuijin was thinking about now was not that. He was thinking about how to make things less awkward between him and Wang Huanxiu.
During this period, his actions had been like those of a scumbag. He was unwilling to give up Wang Huanxiu’s kindness, yet not wanting to make another choice.
Just before the cocktail party started, Wang Huanxiu arrived, and there was no one else by his side except Chen Ji.
As soon as he came in, he was surrounded by major figures in the industry, and was busy with greetings and toasts.
Wang Pingtian also took this opportunity to approach him. The waiter closest to them had already been bought off by him.
When Wang Huanxiu’s glass was empty, he would lift the tray and offer a glass of champagne with the drug in front of him.
Few people could get Wang Huanxiu to drink, and the waiter waited a long time before finding the opportunity.
Wang Pingtian saw with his own eyes that Wang Huanxiu swallowed the drugged drink, and stepped forward to say, “Brother Huanxiu, I want to talk to you alone.”
To be on the safe side, Wang Pingtian would never let the drug take effect at the cocktail party site. He would try his best to lure him to a deserted place.
When the drug took effect, he would directly support him into the prepared room.
There were many reporters and media at the event today and everything was according to plan.
Afraid that Wang Huanxiu would not go, Wang Pingtian prepared a trump card. “I heard the other key factors from the plane accident back then have been found. Brother Huanxiu, don’t you want to know?”
When he mentioned the plane accident, Wang Huanxiu gave him a look.
The cause of the accident had been investigated a long time ago. The so-called other factors in Wang Pingtian’s mouth could be said to be sheer nonsense.
Wang Huanxiu’s indifference made Wang Pingtian flustered. To avoid arousing suspicion, he stopped making a fool of himself and retreated to the side.
In the end, he still gave the waiter a signal, making him “accidentally” spill wine on Wang Huanxiu. Only then did the latter leave for the restroom to deal with it.
The wine spilled over a large area of his suit, so Chen Ji went to the car to get a spare suit. The parking lot was some distance away and would take some time.
Wang Huanxiu’s mood had been unstable these days because the awkward situation with Bai Shuijin had made him unusually upset. In the past, he could handle everything well, but when facing Bai Shuijin, he lost his composure and met obstacles everywhere.
Suddenly, Wang Huanxiu noticed something was wrong with his reactions.
His body temperature kept rising, and an unknown fire kept burning hotter. Even his consciousness became a little blurred.
He realized something was wrong. He had just arrived at the cocktail party, so what he had eaten or drunk had been tampered with. The first thing he did was dial a call, but unable to focus, he simply pressed the first person on his recent calls list.
The note above read: Wang Muguang.
The phone rang in the restroom, but no one answered until the ringing stopped.
At this time, the silenced phone was in Wang Muguang’s pocket, and he himself was in the middle of trying to take ten stairs in one step.
