After sitting down at the dining table, Yan Jingze didn’t start eating with his fork. He planned to wait for the other person to come over so they could have dinner together.
However, minutes passed by—thirty seconds, one minute, two minutes, five minutes—and that person was still in the kitchen, diligently trying to untie the apron.
Touching the knots on the apron, Gu Weizhou fell silent for a moment. [It seems like I tied multiple knots in the apron.]
Looking at the braided mess on the screen, 001 said, […Do you have a special skill in untying apron knots? You turned one knot into multiple knots?]
[That’s not important. What’s important is that I can’t untie it, and his hand is injured, so he can’t help me. What should I do?]
[Cut it with a knife.]
[…But I spent ten yuan on it.]
[Then you wear it while bathing, sleeping, and strolling, it will naturally wear out and break after ten yuan worth of use.]
[…I feel like you’re teasing me.]
[Congratulations, your intuition is correct.]
[001, you’ve changed.]
[Hehe…]
[…] 001 has really changed.
Seeing that the other person hadn’t moved for a long time, Yan Jingze couldn’t sit still and spoke up, “Um… is it difficult to untie?”
Gu Weizhou raised his head, his face slightly red with embarrassment. “It seems… I tied it into a mess.”
Seeing the rare embarrassed look on his face, Yan Jingze couldn’t help but smile. “Let me have a look.” He stood up and walked over to him. But what he saw made Yan Jingze’s mouth twitch uncontrollably. Did he really was trying to untie the apron?
“Um… did I tie multiple knots again?”
Sensitively catching onto the word “again,” Yan Jingze looked down, and then he saw the young man blushing and saying, “I just pulled it a few times, but I don’t know why it always ends up like this.”
“It’s okay. Just use an apron with a hook next time.” Looking at the mess of knots that were quite tight, Yan Jingze said, “Let me help you untie it.” Otherwise, if you pull a couple more times, you really won’t be able to untie it.
“Okay…”
With one hand injured, Yan Jingze could only use his left hand to untie the knots. His left hand was not very agile, and the apron was tied quite tightly, so his fingers inevitably brushed against the person’s slender waist.
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Though there was a layer of fabric as a barrier, Yan Jingze could still vividly feel the softness of that waist and the graceful curve of the slender spine beneath the fabric.
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Somehow in an instant, the darkness in the man’s gaze transformed into an expanse of black, a color that even the brightest light couldn’t reach in that endless abyss.
Finally, only one knot remained, and it was the tightest one.
Staring at the nearly impossible knot to untie with just one hand, Yan Jingze, whose eyes were dark, slightly bent his body forward.
Suddenly, Gu Weizhou felt a scorching breath hit his sensitive lower back. In that moment of intense heat, his legs turned weak, and if the man hadn’t quickly caught him, he would have fallen to the ground in a mess.
Just as he regained his footing, Gu Weizhou instinctively tried to break free but was stopped by a low and hoarse voice behind him.
“Don’t move.”
The scorching airflow filled his lower back, and the two ‘sexy and hoarse’ words entered his ears. At that moment, Gu Weizhou’s whole body stiffened.
Because he was hard.
Sensing the sudden tension in the person between his arms, Yan Jingze who was using both teeth and his hands, paused and lowered his gaze. Due to the slight movement caused by almost tripping earlier, a small area of Gu Weizhou’s supple waist was exposed to the air.
Smooth as porcelain, as white as warm jade, with an alluring curve. It was covered in a thin layer of blush and a light sheen of sweat, emitting a faint scent that seemed to belong only to this person.
In Yan Jingze’s eyes, everything at this moment became enticing and irresistible.
He wanted to take a bite of that fair skin and leave a mark on it.
In his mind, a thought churned and surged like a bubbling spring, causing the man’s slightly parched throat to roll involuntarily.
Suppressing the inner thoughts, he continued to untie the last tightly bound knot. After an unknown amount of time, the knot was finally undone.
Reluctantly withdrawing from the area filled with a sweet fragrance, Yan Jingze stood up straight. “Done.”
Gu Weizhou, now free from the apron, blushed and looked at the man with complicated emotions, whispering, “Tha… thank you.”
“It’s nothing.” The man resumed his usual demeanor and shrugged it off with a nonchalant smile.
At the dining table, Yan Jingze calmly glanced at the person beside him and noticed the reddened ear tips peeking through the disheveled hair. Remembering the moment when the person nearly fell earlier, coupled with those captivating peach blossom eyes that glistened with water vapor, a hint of darkness flickered in his eyes.
After seeing the person off, Gu Weizhou immediately rushed into the bathroom and turned on the shower, to start the great task of being self-sufficient.
001, whose screen was filled with mosaics remarked, [Beast.]
Savoring the process of feeling refreshed, Gu Weizhou teased, [But you can’t even enjoy the pleasure of being a beast.]
[…] 001 who was countered again and had nothing left to say.
After going downstairs, Yan Jingze glanced up at the window with a faint light, his eyes turning dark like that of a night. Then he turned around and headed towards W University.
The next day, Yan Jingze thought there might be some awkwardness due to yesterday’s incident, but to his surprise, the young man had returned to his usual gentle demeanor, as if nothing had changed except for the apron that was nowhere to be seen.
However, on occasion, Yan Jingze would subconsciously glance at the young man’s slender waist, picturing the enchanting scene of the beauty in full bloom from yesterday in his mind.
Time flew by, and before he knew it, the new semester was about to begin.
After completing the final page of the translation, Yan Jingze stretched his stiff neck and looked up to see the young man sitting diagonally across from him, fully focused on the computer screen, sipping his coffee with a thoughtful expression.
With a fair and smooth complexion and a gentle and elegant aura. Although the young man didn’t possess the stunning beauty that would amaze people, his every movement and gesture exuded an indescribable elegance. The kind of deep-rooted elegance that this young man possessed was more captivating than mere beauty.
Yan Jingze still remembered the first time this person had led him to W University. Everyone’s eyes were filled with admiration as if they were looking at an idol.
At that time, he was disdainful because whenever that man went out or appeared on TV, countless people would look at him with the same gaze. But only Yan Jingze knew how filthy and disgusting that man was in private.
Corruption, illicit transactions of various kinds, and many more.
Therefore, he subconsciously denied Wen Yichuan who behaved almost exactly like that man.
In his dark thoughts, he imagined that behind Wen Yichuan’s dazzling exterior, there were hypocrisy, disgust, and another facade that would make him feel ashamed, just like that man, just like himself, just like many others living in today’s society.
Yet, as he got to know Wen Yichuan better, he did see the other side he had wanted to see. But unlike the dark imagination in his mind, the other side revealed a vulnerable and pitiable person, who remained longing for sunshine and gentleness despite his predicaments.
Over the past month and a half, through numerous conversations, interactions, and deeper understanding, Yan Jingze discovered that this person seemed to be different.
He was unlike that man, who only wore a smiling face on the surface. Many times, when he looked at the young man beside him, he saw the tender and warm expressions in his eyes. He patiently explained everything he didn’t understand, caring about the details.
He was unlike himself, who was destined to live in a narrow darkness, completely reduced to a beast allied with the darkness. His laughter seemed capable of infecting and purifying everything around him.
But… except for himself.
He could never purify himself; this self who had already exiled its life to darkness, staining his soul entirely black.
The sun was too bright and beautiful, no matter how much he yearned for the light in the darkness, he could never dare to reach out and touch it.
Thinking of this, Yan Jingze’s thoughts uncontrollably returned to that ambiguous scene from that night, the moment when he almost wanted to take a bite of that slender waist.
Suppressing the dark emotions that would occasionally surge uncontrollably, Yan Jingze lightly concealed all of them in his eyes.
Meanwhile, Gu Weizhou, who was focused on his work, was having a good time.
[I guess the butler was the killer in this episode.]
[Clearly, it was the servant.]
[Let’s bet on it.]
[Okay, bet a whole cart of cucumbers.]
[….001, even if I give you a cart of cucumbers, you won’t be able to use them.]
After a silence of three seconds, […I wanted you to eat them.]
…
During the annual orientation event at W University, the bustling traffic at the gates moved slowly. Countless freshmen and their parents held simplified maps of W University, with volunteer senior students wearing armbands guiding them. Naturally, most of the freshmen were asking the same question to these senior students.
“Which department does Teacher Wen belong to?”
“Can I transfer to Teacher Wen’s class?”
“I changed from A University to W University just because of Teacher Wen. He’s my male god.”
…
Returning to the campus from outside, Yan Jingze overheard one of these conversations, and his footsteps instinctively paused.
Teacher Wen?
Watching numerous students’ excited eyes and hearing their enthusiastic conversations, a bold idea suddenly popped into Yan Jingze’s mind.
With a kind smile, he reached out and stopped a senior student wearing an armband, asking, “Senior, can I ask, who is this Teacher Wen they’re talking about?”
Although it was strange that this person didn’t know such an important figure, the senior student didn’t withhold any information and happily explained, “He’s W University’s legendary figure, Wen Yichuan, who graduated just last year. Oh no, we should call him Teacher Wen now.”
On the other side, Yan Jingze stood frozen in place for almost five seconds.
Wen Yichuan? Teacher?
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he still didn’t know that?