WARNING: THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS DEPICTIONS OF BULLYING, VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT THAT MAY BE UPSETTING FOR SOME READERS.
Even though you wear perfume, I still detect a strong odor of filth on you!
“No… please… please stop…”
The gr*ans that were attempted to be suppressed were accompanied by an irrepressible nasal sound, which emerged from the front row in a l*sty and moist tone…
“Dear students, welcome to the Florence Academy of Art! I am the principal, Wilkes Turner. As we all know, Florence is a cultural city with a long history. It is the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance… In the thirteenth century, Florence emerged as an important Italian city at the time due to the rapid development of the wool and textile industries…”
The principal’s noble yet hollow statement during the freshmen’s entrance ceremony resonated in the air above the auditorium. Just like all noble and hollow political speeches, the upright and smooth surface easily masked the unclean and riddled interior beneath…
“I can’t stand it anymore… please… take it out… ah…”
The boy’s blond hair, dampened by the sweat he endured, formed wavy lines as his body trembled wildly. His back, which was so taut it could snap at the touch of a finger, bent back slightly, as if he were fleeing and dodging, but also as if he were tremendously glad…
“…At that time, the political power in Florence was controlled by various commercial firms. The Republic was established in 1282, and the power of the country was transferred to the most powerful nobles. In fact, our school’s foundation and progress have always been inextricably linked to the big families’ funding and protection.”
“Haaah… so deep… then, there…”
“…Since the 15th century, Florence’s jade flower hairpin has been guarded by the lion of the Medici family, a wealthy businessman. This protection lasted 300 years, and the Medici family insignia is now the city symbol of Florence. At the same time, every student here should be aware that the magnificent Medici family is not only the guardians of Florence’s creative heritage but also the creator and sponsor of our institution…”
“Aaah! Ah… um… ah, I… still want…”
“What? You basically begged us to pull it out. Are you already enjoying it so quickly?” The man sitting to the boy’s left, dressed in a vividly colored outfit with half-length hair and a row of silver studs, laughed sarcastically. His hand, however, reached under the boy’s shirt and massaged it unscrupulously…
The bronze-skinned man with short silver hair sitting on the right side of the boy chuckled and answered, “It’s the sweet spot, isn’t it? You must be excited to walk all the way out here with that big thing on you? Now it’s the beginning of school with so many people. The excitement of being teased during the ceremony and being discovered in public makes people extra sensitive, right, my little Dylan… Haha… the fun is yet to come…”
With such taunting comments, the bronze-skinned man appeared to push something up in his hand, then gently caressed the blond boy’s neck, licking and whispering, “How about mid-range? If you are not satisfied, you can adjust it to high-end, huh…”
The boy’s body shook uncontrollably, and his claws clutched the antique wooden chairs in the auditorium hard, crying out in a sorrowful voice, “Please… ooh ah… Young Master Leo… save… uh, save me… please… haah…”
“That’s too much… What are you talking about?” Hearing the boy’s name, the floral shirt guy looked at his left side and complained. The man in a formal suit had remained silent, his legs crossed and his index fingers crossed relaxedly on his lap. He turned a deaf ear to the boy’s pleas, as if the brown-haired man had fallen into deep thought.
“Young Master Leo is no longer your master. You have to figure out whose property you belong to now…” As he said that, the floral shirt guy snatched the remote control from his partner and pushed it all the way to its maximum setting…
The youngster abruptly raised his head and shook! His body stiffened, like if he had been electrocuted! His shouts were closely smothered by the people on both sides, but his body couldn’t handle it and collapsed backward in spasms!
The blond young man gave up, closing his eyes tightly in despair, and waited for himself to knock over the people in the back row with a loud noise before lying on the ground in a mess. Everyone in the audience noticed that his pants were unfastened and he was not wearing underwear. The appearance of the massage rod wires and s*men spreading between the two thighs…
Anyway, it’s already really dirty. Didn’t you voluntarily cling to the bigwigs? At this stage… What does it matter?
The boy’s eyes shut tightly.
Then he felt that he was being supported.
It was only a hand supporting him behind his back, very quickly pushing him back to his original position, and then taking it back.
The lad turned around in a trance, the residue of climax still on his face, and clearly saw the freshman sitting behind him, a young man wearing a black peaked cap that covered most of his face.
Even the most basic black casual pants cannot disguise the boy’s thin and straight legs. He wore an average black sleeveless T-shirt with no design, but his honey-colored skin and attractive body gave him the appearance of a magazine model…
Who is… he?
The blonde youngster he had just saved was not the only one who was thinking about this; the two young men who were playing with the lad appeared to have seen the teenager behind them, who was clothed inconspicuously but exuded a particular energy.
“Someone saved you, little Dylan~ Why don’t you express your gratitude?” The floral shirt guy licked and nipped Dylan’s earlobe, but his gaze was riveted on the pale and nicely curved lips of the lad in black under the brim of his hat…
“Thank you, thank you…” the blond lad said timidly…
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The blonde boy only curled up in unbearable pain when he first fell, then obediently let others step on him, crawling over the benches under everyone’s buttocks, trembling slightly as he climbed towards the young man in the back row… The boy’s fingers had just touched the young man’s shoes, and before he could make a humble gesture of kissing or licking, he was pushed away by his other hands…
“Aiyaya, don’t be so enthusiastic~ Baby, I’ll give you a piece of advice; my honey doesn’t like this move~”
The speaker squatted casually between the two rows of benches, looking straight at the stunned face of the blond boy, who remained lying down with beaming smiles. “He prefers a sentimental and moral type like me~ right, honey?”
“Shut up.”
The boy in black eventually spoke, but with a chilly voice and an even colder demeanor.
Everyone was taken aback since no one noticed when this enormous boy with green eyes suddenly appeared in front of them. And in the blink of an eye, the guy who was squatting just now had climbed onto the bench like a boneless snake and was next to the aloof black-clothed teenager…
“Don’t be like this, honey, we are Partner~”
The veins on the back of the young man’s hand trembled; he gritted his teeth, and the response got increasingly brief: “Get lost.”
Let’s rewind time to Michelangelo Plaza.
“How rude, I’m a great thief. Work with me from now on; it’s a promising career~” Rod put his hands on his hips with an impassioned face.
“…Why me?” Li Xiaobai asked, glancing at him.
“Because you are handsome… Hey, hey, don’t go! Come back, come back… Actually, I think you have great potential, and your aura is quite compatible with mine… Aiya, please don’t go! I am serious this time! Don’t you believe in intuition? I relied on it to get away with it for so long~”
“…Why do you have to work with others?” The lad who was stopped asked again indifferently.
Rod was stunned for a moment, as if he hadn’t considered this issue for a while. He pondered for a while and whispered, “Because… I have always cooperated with others.” He raised his head and stared at Li Xiaobai seriously. “The most outstanding thieves do not work alone.”
What kind of delusion is this? Li Xiaobai glanced at him coldly and asked, “Where is your previous partner?”
“She left…” Rod turned back in despair and proceeded towards the David monument. He hopped up to the three-meter-high base and sat down easily. “She is the best thief, my most important woman… and she is also a stubborn one.” Once she made the decision to depart, there was no turning back.
Li Xiaobai couldn’t understand why Rod was disappointed at this moment. He was always alone.
“Hey! Let’s make a bet.” Rod lazily pointed at a middle-aged man wearing glasses diagonally across the square. “Let’s see who can steal his identity in the shortest time. The condition is: you are not allowed to talk to him.”
“Bet?”
“If you win, I won’t bother you anymore. If you lose, you will be my partner.” Rod smiled and looked down at his watch. “It’s 11:32 sharp; then, I’ll go first.”
Before he could finish speaking, the man sprang off the monument and dashed across the square to the other side. He still appeared to be a healthy, optimistic, and harmless child, wearing Li Xiaobai’s peaked cap on his head and partially obscuring his face as he walked near the middle-aged guy.
Li Xiaobai was surprised, then raised his hand and lightly felt the top of his head, minus his hat.
When was it stolen? I don’t feel it at all… This bastard is so awesome!
If his profession was not being a thief but a killer, with such skill, the opponent’s head would have been gone.
Li Xiaobai immediately became serious about the bet.
Rod, on the other side, had already succeeded. He stood there and raised his hand, holding the men’s wallet.
ID card, business card—everything he needed to know was in the wallet.
Li Xiaobai lowered his head and looked at his watch. It was 11:32:26.
That is indeed scary…
“Na, it’s your turn~” Rod walked back with a careless smile, stepped onto the monment, and squatted down. He looked down at Li Xiaobai and said, “Don’t let me down.”
“How am I going to find out if you took the wallet?”
“Ah, that’s fine; I’ll put it back.” Rod shrugged.
Li Xiaobai was stunned.
I’m starting to feel a little annoyed…
I could still see it when he stole it, but I didn’t even see it when he put it back! Is the gap so big?
He turned around, frustrated, and looked down at his watch. “It’s 11:33 sharp.”
Now he wanted to win the game, even if he couldn’t recall what the stakes were.
Rod grinned and waved his hand. “Go on, Honey… you?!”
Before he could say goodbye, Li Xiaobai, who stood opposite him, had teleported behind the unlucky middle-aged man. He chopped him down with a knife without any expression, and then took out his wallet as if nothing had happened amidst the screams of the people around him and waved it towards Rod. He raised his middle finger with his left hand, holding the watch… ==
11:33:15.
You are ruthless!
Rod held his forehead helplessly, his head buzzing… “Dude, you call that robbery…”
Why did I choose such a dangerous person for myself?
Rodrian could only rush to the scene of the incident in the shortest possible time, dragging the unconscious, unlucky test subject with one hand and dragging the dangerous man’s neck to the corner with the other arm, a grin on his face to console the terrified people around him… “It’s okay, it’s okay; we are playing a game; this is our uncle; ah, our uncle…”
“I won.” The dangerous man folded his arms and concluded seriously, completely unaware that he had done anything wrong.
Rod almost went berserk! “You don’t call it stealing; it’s called robbery! Robbery!” Rodrian fumes with rage as he grabs the other party’s collar. “The so-called stealing means that the target must not be noticed. The target must absolutely, absolutely not be harmed!”
“No harm done; he’ll wake up after a while,” the dangerous man argued firmly.
“…honey,” Rod patted Mr. Killer feebly on the shoulder, “for normal people, fainting is a very serious injury.”
Isn’t it okay to simply knock it? Li Xiaobai grimaced and looked aside. Being a thief is really difficult…
“…” Rodrian, who could undoubtedly tell what the man in front of him, who was used to killing people, was thinking, could only remain speechless…
“Fine, I lose.” This speechless guy was his usual quick and sharp self. “I will be your partner, on the condition that you are not allowed to inquire about my identity.”
“Huh? Is it only identity?” Rod pondered. “Then I can ask about other things?”
Li Xiaobai nodded and returned the wallet to the big, middle-aged man’s suit pocket.
“Why are you being pursued?” Rod turned his head and looked at the boy beside him. “Did you do something you shouldn’t have done?”
Li Xiaobai shook his head. “No, I simply didn’t do what I should have.”
“Oh, you don’t like what you have to do?”
“Hmm.”
“Then what do you like to do?” Rod jumped onto the bench and sat on the back of the bench in an awkward manner.
“I have no idea.”
“You don’t know?!” Rod’s eyes widened. “Didn’t you come to Italy because you had something you wanted to do or some life plan?”
“No, it just happened that the identity I grabbed before was an Italian student.”
“Then you just took the opportunity to live his life?!” Rod supported his forehead. What a casual guy…
“I have no identity.” Li Xiaobai replied nonchalantly, “In this society, I do not exist.”
If I abandon my prior identity as the young master of the Mo family, I will be nobody…
So he can only live as the person whose identity he stole?
Rod looked at him for a moment and said, “Then what are you going to do? Keep living someone else’s life aimlessly?”
“…” Li Xiaobai raised his eyes to look at him. Perhaps because of his position, he could only look up at him now.
“A guy who doesn’t even know what he wants to do is just a brat who hasn’t grown up!” Rod stood up and smiled. “There’s nothing you can do; just follow me.”
“…Next, I would like to invite Mr. Leo, the outstanding student representative of our school, and the school’s largest sponsoring shareholder, the Medici family, to take the stage!”
The principal’s lengthy speech in the auditorium concluded with scattered applause.
The next speaker was clearly more popular than the principal, and the entire crowd was screaming before he even entered the stage! Some girls stood up from their seats with excitement…
Li Xiaobai frowned slightly, his brows concealed by the brim of his hat, and gently inquired of Rod beside him, “Why is the representative of the Medici family not their family named Medici?”
Rod was going to speak when he was interrupted by another deep and slightly haughty voice.
“Because the surname Leo is a shadow of the Medici family.”
The brown-haired man in a suit in the front row turned sideways and smiled when Li Xiaobai asked the inquiry. His eyes quickly scanned Li Xiaobai and Rod before he cautiously extended his hand towards the boy in black who had not moved. The smile at the corner of his mouth was neither deep nor shallow, nor far nor close, but just right: “Hughes Leo, nice to meet you.”
Li Xiaobai stared at Young Master Leo’s pale and slender hand and remained silent for a moment. He then pulled out his own hand and immediately shook hands with the other person. He said, “Ying.”
“Ying? What a good name.” Hughes narrowed his eyes and smiled thoughtfully, but did not release the boy’s hand. “I look forward to having you join the school life in the future. It will be very exciting…” After speaking, he took a deep look at the young man who never raised his head, stood up, and straightened out his suit. He gave a warning look to the other two young men in floral shirts and bronze skin who were itching to have a go, and then walked up to the podium with the grace expected of a member of the upper class…
Li Xiaobai glanced at the two people in the front seat who were occasionally staring at him and Rod while whispering. He likewise stood up, raised the brim of his hat, dove gently into the shadows on both sides of the auditorium, and strolled carefully out without drawing attention…
Rod remained where he was but took the initiative to enthusiastically pat the shoulders of the two young men in the front seat before following Li Xiaobai after saying goodbye with a smile. All that was left behind was a flurry of exclamations…
“What?! When did the wire of the v*brator… break?!”
“Whoa! Don’t stand up! My belt is cut off… my trousers, my trousers are about to fall off…”
“Oh, don’t leave! Shoelaces! The shoelaces are tied together… Whoa!”
“Thump!”
“Bam!”
“That’s an unusual crash…”
The emerald-eyed young man had one hand in his pocket, with a smile of successful mischief on his face. His right hand flexibly flipped a small, sharp blade, and he moved slowly to catch up with the young man in black who was walking ahead of him.
“How about honey… our target this time, that Young Master Leo?”
“He is about 184 centimeters tall and weighs about 75 kilograms; his left foot’s hamstrings is damaged; it was an old injury about a year ago; it does not affect his current daily routine, however, there will undoubtedly be flaws during close combat; he is left-handed, with thin calluses on his hands; he must have used guns frequently… His arm strength is excellent, but he is not flexible. He probably rarely participates in hand-to-hand combat. There is a scar under his right eye, which is a knife wound. Judging from the location, it should affect his vision, but it has been for a long time, so it could have been cured… Based on our observations thus far, this is all we know for the time being.”
Rod whistled in approval and threw his arm around the young man’s shoulder presumptuously, “Honey~ If we hadn’t been together since we got off the plane, I would have suspected that you slept with him~”
Behind the two people who were gradually going distant, bursts of applause rose from the converted auditorium of the Gothic cathedral, rebounding and thumping over the once-hallowed land, drowning out any cries and sobs…
