KEIGHTY: Special thanks to Gofa for the ko-fi donations~ (Extra Chapter 2/3)
He Yu later discovered that doing this kind of thing in the bathtub was actually physically tiring. When his body reached its peak, he almost fainted. Climbing out of the bathtub, he only took a bath towel to wipe his body. He Yu then fell into Qiao Mudong’s bed and wrapped himself in a quilt.
Qiao Mudong came over later, pulled away the quilt wrapped around him, and got in himself.
The warm and strong flesh imprisoned He Yu, and an arm was placed on his chest. He Yu couldn’t open his eyes anymore, so he turned over and fell asleep immediately.
As soon as it dawned in the morning, He Yu was awakened by his extremely precise biological clock. Before he even opened his eyes, he felt Qiao Mudong’s arm pressing on his chest. That arm was pressed on him all night, causing him to feel like it was difficult to breathe from time to time.
In fact, He Yu thinks that Qiao Mudong is quite amazing. From Ling Qiang to Ling Zhilu, none of the Ling family members have a tall and broad physique. However, Qiao Mudong, an illegitimate son who has lived a hard life since childhood, has a figure similar to that of Europeans and Americans, with wide shoulders, a narrow waist, and a pair of long legs. His legs, coupled with his handsome three-dimensional facial features, can be pulled out directly onto the runway, so He Yu always felt that it was a pity that he did not become a model.
However, Qiao Mudong is a person who has no self-awareness about himself. Whether it is the identity of the young master of the Ling family or his outstanding appearance, he does not care about it. He just lives in his own world and lives as he pleases.
He Yu thinks that Qiao Mudong like this is pretty good; at least he’s pretty cute.
He crawled out of the bed under Qiao Mudong’s arms. Qiao Mudong woke up immediately, stretched, and then lay on the bed holding the quilt, admiring He Yu’s naked body.
He Yu dug out a box of new underwear under the bedside table. He wore one pair last time and now has one pair left. He put on his underwear and opened the cabinet to find something to wear.
Qiao Mudong said, “The clothes you got last time are in the cabinet at the bottom on the right.”
The set of clothes that got wet was left at Qiao Mudong’s house without being taken away. He Yu opened the cabinet on the right and found that they had been washed and neatly stacked inside.
Of course, He Yu wouldn’t think that Qiao Mudong washed it for him. He probably hired the hourly cleaner to do it.
When He Yu was getting dressed, Qiao Mudong asked him, “Didn’t Li Tang tell you not to go to work today?”
He Yu lowered his head while buttoning his jeans. When he heard this, he responded, “Mmhm. We don’t need to. Why?”
Qiao Mudong held up his upper body with one hand and pulled him with the other hand, trying to pull him back to the bed. “Then don’t leave today.”
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He Yu grabbed the pillow on the bed and threw it at Qiao Mudong’s face. “Haven’t you finished having sex with me now?”
After getting dressed, tidying up, and washing up, He Yu came down from the second floor and saw that his mobile phone was still left beside the sofa. It had not been turned off all night. The battery display had turned red. There were two text messages on it, both of which were sent by Fu Chenshan. The first message said, “Okay, I got it.” The second one then asked, “Where are you? Are you at Qiao Mudong’s place?”
He Yu looked at it but didn’t reply. He put the phone back in his pants pocket.
The refrigerator in Qiao Mudong’s home was so empty that not even an egg could be found. As He Yu closed the refrigerator door, he heard Qiao Mudong’s footsteps coming down the stairs.
Qiao Mudong was fixing his tie as he walked. He restored his renmu-gouyang style of dressing by wearing a neat suit.
He Yu asked, “You’re going to work?”
Qiao Mudong replied, “If you stay with me, I won’t go to work.”
He Yu smiled and said, “Then you should go to work.”
Qiao Mudong asked him, “Where are you going?”
He Yu answered, “I’m going to see Brother Li. I’m worried about him being alone.”
Qiao Mudong snorted with a , “You don’t trust him? Back then, more than a dozen people in the north of the city couldn’t kill him. So, you still don’t trust him?”
He Yu was slightly surprised when he heard this and asked, “Brother Li is so powerful?”
Qiao Mudong stopped talking and walked to the door to change his shoes. After a while, he said, “He was only in his twenties at that time. If it’s now, then I could deal with him by myself.”
He Yu just pretended not to hear.
Qiao Mudong turned around and saw his half-smiling expression. He stood up straight, stared at him, and said in a deep voice, “He Yu, do you have a crush on him?”
He Yu knelt down to put on his shoes. Qiao Mudong couldn’t see his expression but only heard him say, “You have no right to interfere with me.”
Qiao Mudong grabbed He Yu’s arm and stood up, pressing him against the door. “Don’t even think about it! Li Tang won’t fuck your ass. Everyone in the north of the city knows that Li Tang likes women!”
He Yu only noticed the last sentence, “Likes women? What do you mean?” It was not surprising that Li Tang liked women, but He Yu was quite interested in the fact that the kind of woman he liked would be known to the whole city.
Qiao Mudong had no intention of chatting with him about Li Tang anymore, so he let go of his hand and went to get the car keys from the shoe cabinet. “Ask him yourself. Anyway, don’t let me know that you are hanging out with him, or I will break your legs!”
He Yu didn’t take his threat to heart and still said, “What does it have to do with you?”
Qiao Mudong drove He Yu to Renxin Street, but stopped at the intersection without going in.
When He Yu got out of the car, he said to him, “Wait a minute.” Then he walked to the bun shop at the corner of the street, bought two buns and a cup of soy milk, and handed it to him through the car window. “Remember to have breakfast.”
When Qiao Mudong reached out to take it, he put his hand around He Yu’s shoulder and kissed his lips deeply.
He Yu pushed him away hard, but his lips were already bitten red. “Get out of here!” He Yu scolded him angrily.
Qiao Mudong simply raised his hand, turned the car around, and drove away with a proud smile on his face.
He Yu stood there and watched him drive the car towards Lingyun on the opposite side. He couldn’t help but smile. When he raised his head, he saw the shopkeeper’s wife of the mutton soup shop at the corner of the street sitting at the door, looking at him. Seeing that he noticed her, the proprietress said, “Young man, you’re not bad ma. Everyday, you have luxury cars picking you up and dropping you off. But you still come here to do manual work to personally experience life, ah?”
He Yu heard this and replied with a smile, “Yes, I am a college student who works here.”
The landlady really believed it, nodded, and said, “Oh, you’re a college student.”
He Yu, who was already twenty-seven years old, lowered his head and smiled; his mood couldn’t help but become happy.
The door to Shiyouwei was closed.
He Yu stood on the street, raised his head, and shouted loudly, “Brother Li!”
After shouting three or four times, the window upstairs was suddenly pushed open with a against the wall. Li Tang stuck his head out with his messy hair and cursed, “Don’t you have a day off?! Go back and sleep! Why are you shouting so early in the morning?! Are you mentally ill?!”
He Yu smiled, a little silly. “I came to check up on you.”
Li Tang was still angry. “I’m not dead; what’s there to see?” After saying that, he half-shrunk his head and went back. “Wait, I’ll open the door for you.”
Li Tang quickly came down from the second floor, opened the store door, let He Yu in, and then closed it again.
Although he changed his clothes and pants, he still looked sleepy. He raised his hand, wiped his face, and said, “You sit down first; I’ll go wash up.”
Li Tang walked to the back of the kitchen. There was a small bathroom there, which was usually used by guests.
He Yu followed him into the kitchen and asked Li Tang loudly, “You still haven’t eaten breakfast yet? Can I cook some noodles for us to eat together?”
Li Tang replied from behind, “Leave me alone!”
He Yu waited for a while and saw Li Tang coming from behind, adding water to the pot, and turning on the stove.
Li Tang said, “If you want minced meat, then I only have less of it. I’m thinking of eating it stir-fried. What about you?”
He Yu answered, “I can make do with that.”
Li Tang went to the refrigerator and took out the minced meat, chopped green onion, and ginger. He poured oil into another wok and heated it up. He stir-fried the meat and boiled the water to cook the noodles at the same time.
He Yu looked a little dazed from the side. While Li Tang was cooking noodles, he asked him, “Why don’t you rest at home?”
He Yu said, “I don’t have a home; I don’t know where to go.”
Regardless of whether it was Qiao Mudong or Fu Chenshan, he was just an illegitimate resident. On the contrary, he felt more confident when he stayed here with Li Tang.
Li Tang glanced at him, then turned to look at the big pot of noodles and said, “Then stay here. What do you want to eat for lunch? I’ll cook it for you.”
He Yu thought for a while and said, “Fish-flavored eggplant.”
He Yu soon discovered that Li Tang’s cooking skills were indeed very good. Not only were his movements quick and his gestures skillful, but the taste was also very good. He Yu began to understand why Li Tang came to open this restaurant.
“I have loved cooking since I was a child,” Li Tang explained. “At that time, when I lived alone, I would often cook delicious food for myself at home.”
He Yu finished eating the noodles and helped wash the dishes. Hearing this, he commented, “That sounds lonely.”
Li Tang turned on the TV outside and said while changing channels, “No, it’s pretty good. It’s no different from now.”
Li Tang is still alone now. Although employees and customers come and go in the store every day, they are neither friends nor relatives. Li Tang still lives his life alone.
He Yu suddenly thought of Hong Minhang. They could still be regarded as brothers.
Li Tang looked into He Yu’s eyes and chuckled. “You aren’t well off yourself, yet you still come and have pity on me, ah.”
He Yu sighed. “We have this saying: fellow sufferers commiserate with each other.”
They are indeed in the same boat; otherwise, He Yu would not have chosen to come to Li Tang when he had nowhere to go.
it’s a bowl-shaped frying pan used typically in Chinese cooking (source: Oxford Dictionary)
My heart hurts for them. I have so much respect for these two! These babies deserve the world and all the warmth it could offer. I’m just glad they found friendship with each other.
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