Unexpectedly lectured, the Admiral took in a deep breath: “There’s a horse ranch nearby. Want to go?”
From a certain point of view, cars and horses belong to the same category.
“The resting area over there is not bad” Sirius heavily emphasized the two words ‘resting area’.
Nalun, however, hesitated: “My horse riding is not very good.”
Sirius: “…….”
The emphasis didn’t seem to actually do anything. On the contrary, despite the hesitation on Nalun’s face, his eyes were bright and shiny, making it very hard to refuse him.
Sirius immediately said: “No problem. I’ll help you.”
Nalun’s expression suddenly became very skeptical.
Sirius, exasperated: “Just wait and see.”
He was only somewhat tired from driving around too much. However, this kind of exhaustion wasn’t enough to affect him. In fact…… if he weren’t in front of Nalun, he wouldn’t have revealed any hints of exhaustion at all.
Compared to ‘exhaustion’, this was more like a kind of relaxed, comfortable, and unguarded state.
However, Nalun still shook his head: “Let’s take a stroll.”
Although the street was empty, it wasn’t completely uninhabited. According to the level of recognition on Sirius’s face, he’d probably have to disguise himself.
Unexpectedly, in the next second, Sirius smoothly pulled out a mask from a certain compartment and put it on. Then he dug out the same kind of mask from an even deeper area and handed it to Nalun.
“Wear it. Right now, your popularity in the public eye is no less than mine.” Sirius said this rather baffling sentence.
The resourceful Admiral didn’t see Nalun respond. Therefore, he actively took up the responsibility of putting on the mask.
Nalun was just about to ask when he felt warmth over his mouth– it was covered by the cloth material.
Sirius’s dark exposed eyes were currently looking towards him in amusement. Calloused fingers brushed past the curve of Nalun’s ears. When the strings became hooked, Nalun felt his ears being squeezed briefly.
“……” This familiar feeling of being taken advantage of.
Sirius withdrew his hands and opened the car door first: “Let’s go.”
Looking at a certain someone who was acting like nothing happened, Nalun contemplated. Perhaps he should attempt getting used to the fact that this respectable Admiral-daren seemed to have some abnormal hobbies and interests in certain areas.
After Nalun got out of the car, Sirius moved closer very naturally again and reached over to hold his hand. His expression continued to remain dignified and trustworthy.
Nalun turned his head, gaze moving from top to bottom, and finally landing on their clasped hands.
Speaking strictly, this should be the first time they were touching ‘intimately’ in broad daylight– Oh, Duo Ni’s black history? The Honored Prince has sealed that up a long time ago. Therefore, it didn’t count.
The feeling of being held by a calloused palm wasn’t actually something easy to get used to. The Honored Prince, who was not accustomed to being intimate with anyone on the broad streets where anyone can pass by, couldn’t help but straighten his back and tighten his expression.
“Sirius……”
The Admiral, who was named, happily swung his hand: “What’s the matter?”
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Grayish green eyes spinning in a half circle, he glanced towards Sirius who was still standing in the same spot.
The other noticed Nalun’s gaze and gave him a smile, not looking unhappy or anything.
A heavy sense of guilt rose from the bottom of Nalun’s heart. He shifted his gaze and felt somewhat apologetic– he seemed to have gotten used to the kissing first and instead had completely forgotten the most basic things.
Sirius moved closer again. However, this time, he didn’t hold Nalun’s hand.
Nalun’s eyes flashed: “There’s a car coming.”
Sirius, exasperatedly: “I know.”
“Sirius, I’m still not accustomed to walking with someone like this down the street.”
Nalun was indeed not accustomed. Perhaps because he has seen many men and women being affectionate in public, as a single bachelor for many years, his deep impression towards this kind of thing was disinclination. Now that it was his turn, his previous impression was already affecting him. In addition, the proper upbringing that he had received also made him unable to act so intimately in front of other people.
If Sirius knew his internal thoughts, he would have probably become even more exasperated.
It was only holding hands.
Unfortunately, a certain complicated Honored Prince was always overly cautious and suspicious.
Sirius: “It was my bad.”
Nalun: “It’s not.”
Sirius: “We can wait until we get back.”
Nalun: “…….”
Sirius abruptly lowered his voice and leaned next to Nalun’s ear to say: “Baobei~ I want to hold your hand.”
Possibly being verbally teased, Nalun gave him a few sideways glances and said decisively: “No.”
Sirius: “……”
“Actually, we should try to get used to it.” He actively grabbed Sirius’s wrist and said: “Getting used to it ahead of time is better.”
Sirius pointed ahead and reminded:”I hear the sound of an engine again.”
Nalun didn’t give him any expression at all: “In reality, the people in the car don’t actually notice those in the surroundings or what’s happening between them.”
The smile at the corner of Sirius’s mouth gradually grew larger. He seized the opportunity to ask: “So what is happening between them?”
Nalun squeezed with force: “Absolutely nothing at all.”
Sirius: “……”
Approaching dusk, the warm sun gradually setin the west. The sky in the distance gained a scarlet red, like it was abraze. Officially removed from the bachelor’s list, the first-time couple, who had zero experience in romance, stumbled awkwardly through their date.
Behind them, programmed in autopilot, the sports car slowly crawled in its lonesome.
When the two people turned onto a small path lined with trees, the big and tall man, who had been pulled along this entire way, stopped being passive and proactively pressed the other against the trunk of a tree. He lowered his head and gave a few tentative kisses first. Verifying that he wasn’t rejected, he gave a soft, long deep kiss.
Lips and tongues intertwining and breaths mixing together, Nalun originally wanted to calmly treat this as a step to be completed as part of the date. By the end, even his thoughts started to float away.
It wasn’t until his breathing became difficult that he slowly regained his clarity again and pressed against the other’s shoulder.
Sirius panted somewhat. After feeling the signal ‘calling for a stop’, he encircled Nalun tightly with his hands and placed his chin on top of the other’s head.
Nalun: “…….” He clearly remembered that he was only half a head shorter than Sirius.
He looked downward. In order to maintain this ‘cute and helpless‘ position for the person below, this powerful and extraordinary Admiral-daren specifically stood…… on his tiptoes?
“Nalun.” With a faint pant, Sirius’s voice was deep and husky: “Sometimes I would have this thought, but you definitely wouldn’t be happy..….”
Nalun thought to himself: what terrible opening remarks.
“The thing that happened during Shasha’s birthday party……” Sirius reached out a hand and squeezed the back of Nalun’s neck: “Don’t frown yet.”
Nalun: “……” Stuck in the middle of changing expressions, the Honored Prince sank into an awkward state.
“Fortunately, it wasn’t someone else.”
After a short moment of silence.
Nalun asked: “What if it was Diya?”
Sirius froze and released Nalun to look him in the eyes: “What?”
Nalun, curiously: “Aren’t you guys good friends? If it were him, what would you have done? Or Andrew?”
Sirius: “……”
Nalun’s expression froze: “It’s very hard to answer?”
Sirius: “No, I just imagined it briefly and then entered a state of extreme shock.”
Nalun: “What about Shasha?”
Sirius: “Filed a lawsuit and then let that little girl experience what’s an irresponsible…… scumbag?”
Nalun: “……”
After a while, he asked again: “What about Luye?”
With a twitch to the corner of his mouth, Sirius grabbed Nalun by the back of his neck and lectured: “Your highness, what the heck are you thinking about in that head of yours?”
Nalun immediately stopped talking.
When the hold on the back of his neck loosened, he immediately pushed Sirius away. Looking like he wanted to say something but hesitating, in the end, Nalun did his best to suppress his expression and started to continue walking forward.
Sirius naturally followed behind him.
Nalun asked in a small voice: “Do you always carry that kind of thing at all times?”
Sirius looked at him in bewilderment: “What kind?”
What he received in response was a silent expression accusation.
Sirius: “???”
It wasn’t until the two people started walking back that a certain dubious criminal, who had pierced a ring, finally realized the meaning behind this question. Even though the skin on his face was already thick enough, Sirius still couldn’t help but flush red– This was really something that was somewhat hard to explain.
Why would he pierce his family sigil on there when he was muddle headed and not in the right mind?
Sirius reflected and verified that he didn’t have any special interests. As a matter of fact, he didn’t even know this was possible prior to this.
Uncontrollably, he shifted his gaze to the chest of the person beside him– Right now, he naturally couldn’t see anything. Hidden beneath fitting garments, it was covered up completely.
Sirius had already completely recovered the memories of that night. An image of himself taking off the ring and placing it on there appeared in his head.
This proud and egotistical Honored Prince seemed to have regained consciousness completely right at that moment.
Wet from sweat, his disheveled bangs were stuck to his skin. Skin a powdered pink, his beautiful body suddenly arched into a bow because of the pain. The young man had grabbed his arm with a shout of pain, face color pale white. He glared at Sirius with moist eyes, glaring for several minutes in total.
The thought process of the person below was slowed a lot due to the intoxication of liquor. However, from the breathing squeezed out between his mouth, it was enough to confirm that the ‘piercing’ process wasn’t quite so wonderful.
The old doctor from the Abbott Clinic had described the tragic state of the injury before. Sirius also knew of Nalun’s great efforts to disguise himself to seek treatment……
Thinking about it like this, the excessively rough conduct that he had displayed while he was senseless… was really too outrageous.
No wonder, for a period, Nalun had an unsightly expression constantly and treated him full of hostility.
“It’s almost meal time. After we reach your house, I’m driving home.”
Sirius immediately grabbed him: “Stay with me some more.”
Nalun: “……”
Sirius moved completely over and embraced him.
“I will make you good food to eat.” Sirius pleaded with a coaxing tone: “Oh right, you still haven’t toured the basement.”
“The basement?” Don’t people usually place some priceless objects in that kind of place and lock it up tightly? Or it’d be piled up with random stuff accumulated over the years, laid around messily and covered in dust.
“Is there something special about it?”
Sirius tugged on him, saying: “No.”
Nalun: “……”
Hahahaha, the way the author wrote the nipple ring piercing still makes me spit out question marks all the time
Also alsooo, hahahaha our tsuntsun Nalun is really so great at making Sirius speechless pfft HAHAHAHA
Thank You for the new chapter ( ๑ ❛ ڡ ❛ ๑ )❤
sirius really tales every opportunity, even just putting a mask on for nalun.
*takes 🙁
thanks for the chapter!
how can u pierce smth with a ring? I’m so confuseddd🤔🤔 and also yes it’s good that Sirius feels bad about it bc it sounds like it hurt so much😭