Although he only learned to cook after meeting Yao Qi, Liu Lin’s cooking was actually better than Yao Qi’s.
This made Yao Qi feel a little depressed.
“Let’s go out later.” He could drop by the flower shop as well.
In the past few days, because of Liu Lin’s incident, Yao Qi completely forgot about his own shop. Although he didn’t actually care that much about it, it was his own shop after all, so he still had to check how it was doing.
“Okay.” Liu Lin shoved the rice into his mouth, hurriedly gobbling up his food.
“Don’t eat too quickly, it’s not good for your stomach.”
“Oh.”
“There’s no need to rush. Since I’ve already promised you to go out, then we’ll definitely go out, alright?” Yao Qi used his chopsticks to clamp down Liu Lin’s chopsticks.
Liu Lin lifted his head to glance at the man.
Yao Qi looked back at him with a smile.
“Alright,” Liu Lin impatiently pouted his lips.
Only then did Yao Qi withdraw his chopsticks, nodding as he smiled.
After the meal, Yao Qi took him to the supermarket and bought a box of milk as well as two packets of snacks for Liu Lin to eat on the road.
Although they had just eaten, Liu Lin’s appetite was bigger than his, and the snacks weren’t filling. He just bought them to give Liu Lin something to do.
It was still a while from the closing time of the flower shop. On the way there, he heard several young girls discussing the newly opened confectionery store on the shopping street nearby, talking about how tasty their sweets were. Yao Qi wasn’t a big fan of sweet food, but on the other hand, Liu Lin had a sweet tooth and loved to snack on candies at home.
So Yao Qi made a detour and took Liu Lin to the shopping street to check out the store.
Because it was newly opened, the store wasn’t hard to find.
But rather than a confectionery store, he felt that it was more appropriate to call it a toy store.
The building was very big, looking lovely in all its pink and pastel decorations. Coupled with the various kinds of toys put on display, it looked like something straight out of a fairytale book.
It was just that compared to other confectionery stores, there wasn’t as much variety of sweets offered in this place.
But their toys were really cute.
Yao Qi couldn’t help taking a few more glances.
Seeing that Yao Qi seemed to be interested in the toys, the clerk immediately started her pitch, “We have an opening promotion for the toys in our store, Sir. For any purchase under 200¥, we’ll give you 15¥ worth of sweets. If it’s between 200¥ to 400¥, we’ll give you 40¥ worth of sweets or a gift voucher of equivalent value…”
After detailing the promotion, the clerk even winked at him, “You can try buying that big fox for your girlfriend. It’s a new model that just came out this year and is currently selling very well.”
Yao Qi looked at the direction she was pointing and saw a snow-white fox plush lying inside a decorative rattan cage. Its fur was smooth, fluffy, and very soft, and both of its front paws were covering its nose, leaving its pair of black beady eyes unobstructed. The toy was indeed very cute.
Yao Qi couldn’t hold back his smile. If he had a girlfriend, he really would’ve been tempted to buy it, but what he had was a boyfriend, not a girlfriend.
Liu Lin was not a girl, so Yao Qi didn’t think he would be interested in this kind of stuffed toy.
Of course, neither was Yao Qi.
“—” Before he could refuse the clerk, he saw Liu Lin staring at the big fox, mesmerised. There was a strange light gleaming in his eyes, and he couldn’t move his gaze anywhere else.
—Well, it seemed like he liked it a whole lot.
Liu Lin was like a dog who saw its favourite treat, wanting to pounce on it while simultaneously trying to restrain the impulse. So it could only sit on the ground and continued to look at it, ceaselessly wagging its tail.
Yao Qi was instantly struck with the urge to buy the fox for Liu Lin, wanting to make him happy.
He also wanted to squeeze the man into his arms and ruthlessly eat him up.
To bully Liu Lin until he revealed his pitiful look and make him look at Yao Qi with his pleading eyes.
With an idea in mind, Yao Qi smiled and shook his head at the clerk, “No, thank you.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
Lf tjv yffc rfmgfais byrfgnlcu Ole Olc jcv rjk atja joafg tf fzqgfrrfv tlr gfoerji, atf wjc lwwfvljafis bqfcfv tlr wbeat ab rjs rbwfatlcu. Llr Cvjw’r jqqif ybyyfv jibcu tlr atgbja, yea lc atf fcv, cbcf bo tlr kbgvr mjwf bea.
Lf bcis ugjyyfv Tjb Hl’r tjcv.
“Qtja’r kgbcu?” Tjb Hl jrxfv tlw, qgfafcvlcu cba ab xcbk jcsatlcu.
Liu Lin looked at him and licked his lips, his eyelashes quivering. At last he lowered his gaze, his grip on Yao Qi’s hand tightening.
He felt restless.
He felt nervous.
He felt tangled.
Normally, he was obviously so crazy and uncontrollable, but each time he had to expose himself, he always curled up and shrank, so timid that a small poke would send him running.
“Ah-Lin.” Yao Qi softened his already gentle voice, sounding so tender it enticed Liu Lin.
“Fox.” Seemingly receiving some encouragement, Liu Lin uttered the word in a low voice. He paused, and then added, “It looks like you.”
Would Yao Qi dislike him for acting like a little girl?
For a big man to still like this kind of thing, would it make Yao Qi feel speechless?
This was the first time Liu Lin hated the fact that he had no money.
If he had his own money, he could secretly buy the toy by himself and wouldn’t have to feel this embarrassed.
He suddenly realised that he was currently being kept by Yao Qi.
Yao Qi fed him, raised him, and bound him.
It made him feel a little sad.
He had never felt so useless before.
When he went back later, he would pick up something related to his old line of work to make money. In the future, it would be his turn to support Yao Qi.
Since Yao Qi would be sad if he got injured, he would be careful in order not to get hurt.
Liu Lin felt happy after making up his mind.
No longer feeling useless in his heart, he regained his energy and looked at Yao Qi with sparkling eyes.
What was so wrong about him liking this kind of stuff?
It was fine even if Yao Qi didn’t like it—when he had made enough money, he would be the one to provide for Yao Qi anyway.
His dislike wouldn’t matter.
Would Yao Qi dislike this side of Liu Lin?
The answer was certainly: impossible.
This kind of contrast would only make him think that Liu Lin was adorable.
“Then let’s buy it.”
On the side, the clerk had been witnessing the whole thing unfold. She felt as though a gate to a new world had opened right in front of her eyes, and even as she packed the toy, she was still half-stuck in a daze.
That fearsome-looking man actually liked stuffed toys?
And that gentle-looking man actually treated him so dotingly?
Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
…but actually, this kind of contrast was also very cute…
Wait a second, that wasn’t it!
She was only supposed to be selling toys, why was she inexplicably fed a mouthful of dog food!
Between the gift voucher and the sweets, Yao Qi naturally picked the latter. The reason was very simple—because Liu Lin liked sweets.
Yao Qi brought Liu Lin to the store precisely because he had discovered this fact long ago.
The main purpose was to get the sweets, and the stuffed toy was just an accidental, additional purchase.
Liu Lin, who was eating sweets, looked as well-behaved as a little cub.
At this time, there wasn’t any trace of the vicious aura that usually surrounded him.
“Is it good?” Yao Qi sat across from him, smiling as he watched the man.
Liu Lin stopped what he was doing and nodded his head.
“Ah-Lin, I think you’ll look very cute hugging that fox.”
“…Huh?” The sudden change of topic made Liu Lin pause for a moment.
“What I mean is—” Yao Qi stretched the end of his sentence, deliberately teasing him.
“What?”
“I want to fuck you.” Yao Qi still had that gentle look on his face, expression remaining the same despite the words he was saying, “You’d definitely look so cute, hugging that fox as I fuck you until you’re trembling all over the place.”
“…” Liu Lin blinked his eyes. It took a good while for him to finally react. According to the scene Yao Qi had narrated, Liu Lin pictured himself being fucked pliant, helplessly twitching his ass, his breath coming out in pants.
His excitement was starting to get out of control. He licked his dry lips to suppress the unbearable feeling growing inside him and expectantly looked at Yao Qi, “Tonight—let’s try it tonight.”
His voice had even gotten a little hoarse, sounding deep and thick.
Just by hearing it, you would know that he was aroused.
“Okay,” replied Yao Qi smilingly.
But in the end, they failed to try it out that night.
Because of that little girl Liu Lin thought would never appear in front of them again.
Not long after he and Liu Lin arrived at the flower shop, they heard one of the staff rushing out the door after screaming in shock.
Yao Qi went out to take a look and saw that a person had collapsed outside of his shop.
A little girl in a black lolita dress.
Not only was her whole body extremely dirty, it was also littered with obvious bloodstains.
Underneath her torn skirt, you could even see glimpses of long slash wounds left by a knife.
The people passing by all slowed down to look at her.
The flower shop staff squatted not far away from her in a dilemma, not knowing whether she should attempt to wake her up, or directly call the police, or call an ambulance.
Yao Qi really didn’t want to have anything to do with this girl.
Although her injuries were caused by Liu Lin, she had ill intentions towards himself and even hurt Liu Lin.
But with so many eyes watching, he couldn’t just ignore the unconscious person right in front of his shop.
He took out his phone to dial 110, but halted as he was pressing the number.
He couldn’t call the police.
The wounds on her body came from Liu Lin’s knife.
It was true that Liu Lin did it in self-defence, but this ‘excessive defence’ would make him be held accountable.
This girl was underage and likely had mental problems, so reporting her to the police wouldn’t be of much use and might implicate Liu Lin instead.
The current Liu Lin had no legal identification.
His new identity card had not yet been issued.
Yao Qi didn’t want his family to know about Liu Lin too early, wary that they wouldn’t like the man if they saw how dangerous he was. He wanted to wait until Liu Lin’s mental state had gotten better and more stable.
So instead of relying on his family’s connections, he personally looked for another source, which led to the lengthy processing time of Liu Lin’s new identity card.
To the extent that it hadn’t been completed even until now.
Calling the police would certainly implicate him and Liu Lin.
Nothing would happen to him, but Liu Lin—
Not to mention that if he were to be arrested, even if the police only took down a record, judging from how much his family fussed over him, they would definitely rush over and create an uproar.
It would be counterproductive to his plans.
He couldn’t call the police.
He couldn’t let this girl die—at least not now.
Yao Qi calmly dialled 120 and reported his address.
Liu Lin snatched his phone, disbelief and anger written all over his face.
“She wants to kill you!”
He lowered his voice and growled in Yao Qi’s ear.
Liu Lin didn’t know about Yao Qi’s concerns. He only knew that the girl wanted to kill Yao Qi, so he was very upset because the man was too careless about his own life.
“I know.”
“Huh? When did you suddenly become so sanctimonious?”
Ordinary people wouldn’t care about the life of the person who wanted to kill them, unless they had the mindlessly compassionate disease—but Yao Qi had obviously never acted like this before.
Why was he doing this now—
Yao Qi lifted his hand and used it to slightly press down Liu Lin’s head. With his gentle and warm voice, he slowly whispered his explanation into Liu Lin’s ear.
Very quietly.
The little girl had enough self-awareness not to eavesdrop on them.
But seeing Liu Lin clicking his tongue as his expression kept worsening, a shudder of fear ran through her body.
Small Theatre
Xiao Qi: (Ah-Lin is a dog, so I have to regularly take him out for walks) Ah-Lin, I’ll be taking you out to play soon.
Ah-Lin: Okay♥ (wagging his tail)
Xiao Qi: What do you want to eat?
Ah-Lin: Cake! I also want a big fox!
Xiao Qi: First of all, dogs can’t eat sweets, so that won’t do. Secondly, dogs and foxes are of different species, so it wouldn’t work either.
Ah-Lin: …Huh? …Huh!? Wait, this script doesn’t sound right!
Xiao Qi: (Bullying Ah-Lin is a daily must♥)
T/n: This is probably the cutest chapter in the story if you ignore the last part lol. Liu Lin wanting the fox plushie because it looks like Yao Qi is so adorable 🥹 (and Yao Qi’s brief dirty talk is hmm steamy 😳) too bad their plan was disrupted in the end 😂
Thank You for the new chapter ♡(ŐωŐ人)
Thank you for reading 😘
Thank you! 👌
Thank you for reading! 😊
I kept forgetting that our MC is the top. I had to reread previous chapter bc i had wrongly imagined MC as the bot. 😂