The bathroom was quiet for a while, the only sound that could be heard was of the shower spraying water.
Probably because there was no response, Ji Shuyan gave out a dissatisfied whimper. His hands climbed onto Duan Zhi’s shoulders, wanting to push him down.
Duan Zhi restrained him with one hand, and firmly grasped Ji Shuyan’s shoulder, so hard that Ji Shuyan cried out in pain.
“Don’t move.” He warned in a hoarse voice, which even sounded a little cold.
His light coloured eyes were fixed on Ji Shuyan. Under the cold white light, he looked a bit like a poisonous snake about to attack. He was cold and focused, but his handsome and deep facial features made him extremely sexy. His lips were wet with water droplets, his half-wet and disheveled hair carried a different kind of wildness than usual.
Duan Zhi was a little annoyed, it was hard enough for him to hold back from touching Ji Shuyan, but Ji Shuyan still wanted to tease him desperately, did he really think he was some kind of saint?
But Ji Shuyan was drunk, and you can’t reason with drunk people.
And he was sober.
Duan Zhi took a deep breath. The air held a faint scent of freesias, it was from the reed diffuser by the sink, the strong and inferior fragrance was gone as it had reached the end, leaving only a gentle aftertaste.
Ji Shuyan also had the smell of freesia perfume on his body, but it was very light and much more elegant and muted than the one in the air now.
He closed his eyes, and slowly loosened his grip on Ji Shuyan’s hand. The aggressiveness in his eyes gradually faded, and he returned to his usual cynical appearance, like a wild beast retracting its sharp claws and putting on a harmless facade.
He gently flicked Ji Shuyan’s forehead, and warned, “Settle down, or you’ll have to cry tomorrow.”
Don’t know if his warning worked, or if the effect of Ji Shuyan’s medication had eased, after that, he really didn’t move anymore. He was lying in the bathtub, leaning against the edge, half asleep and half awake.
Ten minutes later, Duan Zhi carried Ji Shuyan out of the bathtub, wiped his body clean, changed him into a bathrobe and stuffed him under the quilt.
Duan Zhi couldn’t let himself be idle, so he cleaned up his and Ji Shuyan’s wet clothes, ventilated the room, and asked the room service to send cold medicine and antipyretics over just in case.
It wasn’t until everything was done that he laid down on the sofa.
It was too chaotic when he was booking the room a while ago, and hence didn’t bother to choose the room type. The lady at the front desk saw him holding Ji Shuyan and her thoughts ran crooked for a moment, so she directly checked them into a double-bed room for couples.
As a result, he now had no bed to sleep in.
Duan Zhi was lying on the sofa wrapped in a blanket, but he wasn’t too sleepy. He turned his head to look at Ji Shuyan, who was sleeping peacefully, and thought that when he woke up tomorrow, Ji Shuyan’s face must be wonderful, which strangely made him look forward to it.
Duan Zhi guessed right.
The next morning, Ji Shuyan woke up, but he stayed under the blanket for a long time refusing to see anyone, feeling extremely ashamed and indignant.
The white quilt was used by him as armor. He covered himself completely, revealing only a hand holding the quilt. His jade white fingers were long and slender, but their knuckles were slightly pink.
Duan Zhi persuaded him for a long time but to no avail. He could only lie on the bedside and coax him, just like a shit-shoveling officer who was trying to trick a cat out of its nest.
He said earnestly, “Uncle Ji, if you think about it, you are already an adult, what big storms have you not seen? Disgrace is just this once. About this matter, Heaven knows, you know, I know. I won’t even tell Ji Yuan.”
Ji Shuyan’s head was buzzing. He just wanted to tell Duan Zhi to shut up.
He had never seen such a big storm.
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He clearly remembered how he was deliriously entwined around Duan Zhi. Duan Zhi was kind enough to help him take a cold bath, but he raised his head to kiss him. Duan Zhi backed away, but he still chased after him relentlessly, forcing Duan Zhi to sink with him.
That narrow bathroom, Duan Zhi’s dark and frighteningly gloomy eyes, the scorching temperature of his palm, and the strength of his body, were all still vivid in his memory.
…
In short, he flirted with Duan Zhi. There was both human testimony and material evidence for that.
Ji Shuyan covered his face in pain.
What is the difference between his behavior and sexual harassment? So what if he was drugged? Was that an excuse to be a beast? He was just shameless.
If he had known that this would be the end result, he wouldn’t have called Duan Zhi even if he died.
However, Duan Zhi was exceptionally good-tempered. He was still persuading him outside the quilt at this time, showing no sign of anger at all.
“Come out and have breakfast first. You need to get some energy after a night full of tossing.” Duan Zhi said, “I bought porridge and omelettes. Eat, then you can be angry.”
Ji Shuyan: “…”
He really couldn’t understand the young people nowadays. Why didn’t Duan Zhi care about it at all? It was as if he was the victim.
After escaping under the quilt for a long time, Ji Shuyan finally came out of it. Hiding forever wasn’t a solution.
His face was pale, and he sat on the bed in an orderly manner. Even his hands were placed flat on the quilt. His thin body wrapped in a bathrobe looked fragile, as if it would break with slightest touch.
He half-bowed to Duan Zhi.
“I’m really sorry about last night.” Ji Shuyan’s eyelashes fluttered gently. His voice was a little hoarse and lower than usual, “I just thought that you were the closest to me, so I called you. I genuinely didn’t think that I would do those things. I’m really sorry.”
He settled down and added, “I don’t know how I can make it up to you, but as long as you mention it, I will try my best to do it.”
Now it was Duan Zhi’s turn to be stunned.
It took him a while to realize that in Ji Shuyan’s eyes, what happened yesterday was because he took advantage of him?
Duan Zhi raised his eyebrows subtly, not knowing how to comment for a while.
Not considering how what happened yesterday was initiated by him, even if he was half-pushed to do it, nothing really happened between them. It wasn’t worth Ji Shuyan being so terrified at all.
If this was anyone else, they wouldn’t have begged for forgiveness in such a serious manner.
It’s a miracle that Ji Shuyan has lived to his thirties without being wiped clean after being eaten dry by someone because he was still too naive, his eyes were still bright and clear.
Duan Zhi didn’t speak, he just sat there quietly, making Ji Shuyan even more uneasy.
He tried his best to look at Duan Zhi as gently and calmly as possible, “Don’t be embarrassed to mention it, and don’t worry about Ji Yuan being caught in the middle. This is my problem, and I should take responsibility for it.”
Hearing the word “responsibility”, Duan Zhi finally couldn’t hold back, and burst out laughing.
Ji Shuyan was puzzled by his laughter.
Duan Zhi asked in amusement, “How are you going to be responsible?”
This question did put Ji Shuyan in a difficult spot. After all, it was the first time he had encountered such a thing.
“Whatever you say,” he said with deliberation, “whether it’s money, an apology, or compensation of some other nature, I’m fine with it.”
Duan Zhi laughed even harder.
He shook his head, seeing Ji Shuyan’s look as if the sky had collapsed, he couldn’t bear to bully him any longer.
He picked up the beef porridge he bought from the side and stuffed it into Ji Shuyan’s hands, “Don’t be so nervous, Uncle Ji, let’s eat first.”
Ji Shuyan was dumbfounded.
Duan Zhi helped Ji Shuyan stir the porridge, added a bit of chopped green onion to it, and said casually, “I am twenty years old, not twelve. You were drunk, but I wasn’t. If I didn’t want to care about you, I could’ve just thrown you into the bathtub and left. So what happened yesterday was a friendly help at best to me, it’s not a big deal, and you don’t need to be guilty to the point of trembling.”
To say that he hadn’t thought about taking advantage of the situation at all would be false.
Especially when Ji Shuyan said with a serious face that it was fine to make any request, he really wanted to tease Ji Shuyan, saying that if you’re really so guilty, why don’t you become my boyfriend.
But it was precisely because Ji Shuyan was so serious, old-fashioned and cute, staring at him anxiously, that his heart softened.
He was so well behaved that his conscience would ache if he took advantage of the fire.
He doesn’t consider himself a good person in the true sense of the word, but his conscience always intervened at such inopportune times.
Ji Shuyan was confused by Duan Zhi’s attitude.
He listened to Duan Zhi’s words and ate a mouthful of porridge first. The porridge was still very hot, and the beef was stewed soft and fragrant. Sprinkled with some pepper and with green onion floating in it, it tasted even more refreshing.
After taking a few sips, he looked at Duan Zhi in confusion: “Aren’t you angry?”
This question hit the spot.
Duan Zhi raised his eyelids, and his smile faded, “Angry ah, how can I not be angry? But I’m not angry about what happened between you and me. Are you going to explain to me what happened yesterday?”
Even now, when he thinks of Ji Shuyan’s appearance in the car yesterday, his heart jolts.
Ji Shuyan looked at him helplessly through the window, frowning in pain, curled up on the passenger seat like a helpless bird.
He didn’t even dare to think about what would’ve happened if there was no one around Ji Shuyan yesterday or if Ji Shuyan hadn’t had time to hide in the car at all.
Yesterday he was reluctant to teach Ji Shuyan a lesson, and besides, he couldn’t teach a drunkard anything. But today Ji Shuyan was already safe, and he had actually been suppressing his anger.
He couldn’t help sounding colder, it was completely different from his usual amiable expression, his eyebrows sank, and he had an aura beyond his age.
“Uncle Ji, you’re thirty-three, right? Where’s your basic sense of vigilance? You said that I hang out in bars, that I’m frivolous and love to play. Aren’t you the one who doesn’t like to play? You almost got yourself killed one of the few times you came out. Do you know what would have happened to you if I hadn’t arrived in time yesterday? You would’ve been picked up, bullied and dumped in a cheap motel. Instead of sitting across from me today, you’d be in the hospital getting your whole body checked out.”
The more Duan Zhi talked, the more he felt angry, but a pang of fear ran through his heart.
They had such little physical contact yesterday but Ji Shuyan looked as if he wanted to die as an apology. If something had really happened, he couldn’t imagine what kind of breakdown Ji Shuyan would have.
Ji Shuyan was silent for a while. Knowing that he was wrong, he said in a low voice, “You’re right, this is my negligence.”
He seldom had such docile moments.
He became the director of the hospital at a young age, and he was the one who educated the novice doctors who made mistakes every day. Now the tables have turned, and it’s his turn to be educated by a boy who is 13 years younger than him.
But he couldn’t even refute it, it really suffocated him.
Ji Shuyan bit his lower lip subconsciously. He waited for the room to quiet down and Duan Zhi to no longer lecture him before he added, “Yesterday was really an accident.”
Duan Zhi crossed his arms and sneered, “How was it an accident? Let’s hear it.”
Ji Shuyan himself was also haunted by yesterday’s events.
He whispered, “Yesterday, I went with my friend to the bar of an acquaintance, so I let my guard down. After some time, my friend and the bar owner had something to do and left first. I was going to go home, but I happened to have a message to reply to, so I was delayed at the bar for a while. It was when I stood up again and walked out of the bar that I realised that something was wrong.”
He glanced at Duan Zhi, “I know it was an oversight on my part, but if I hadn’t locked myself in the car in time, I would have called the police and asked someone nearby for help. Later, I also saw the person who was following me. Not very tall, small eyes, wore a floral shirt, and looked like he was in his twenties.”
Hearing this, there was still something Duan Zhi didn’t understand.
Ji Shuyan’s drink must have been drugged when he lowered his head to reply to the messages. But how was he so focused on his phone that he didn’t notice anything?
He pressed the bridge of his nose, not knowing what to say.
“Are you stupid?” Duan Zhi’s face was terribly dark, “You aren’t allowed to drink from bars unless it’s fresh from the counter and you’re staring at it. How do you know whether the person standing next to you is a good person or a bad person?”
He thought for a while, and said grumpily, “No, you’d better not go at all. This is still an acquaintance’s bar. If you were to go to a stranger’s bar, you wouldn’t even know if there’s an issue with the bartender.”
Ji Shuyan didn’t refute a word, and quietly lowered his head to drink porridge.
He glanced at Duan Zhi. In his heart, was actually quite surprised. He called Duan Zhi yesterday only because he considered that Duan Zhi was the closest to him and would reach him the fastest.
But secretly, he felt that Duan Zhi was not related to him, and he would’ve completed his duty when he saved him. He never thought that Duan Zhi would take care of him for another night. He was far more mature and reliable than he had ever thought.
When he thought of this, his heart seemed to be poked, sore and soft, and a little embarrassed.
But he couldn’t say any soft words, he could only nod his head gently, and say another sentence, “I know. I haven’t even thanked you for last night.”
Duan Zhi paused, looked at Ji Shuyan’s moist eyes, and couldn’t speak again.
Although nothing happened last night, Ji Shuyan was still in poor spirits today. He sat on the bed in a plain bathrobe, revealing his thin white neck and collarbone, his belt tied haphazardly. He rarely looked quiet, gentle, weak and pale.
Duan Zhi couldn’t bring himself to say anymore heavy words.
He hesitated repeatedly before stretching out his hand and gently rubbing Ji Shuyan’s hair, “Forget it, pay attention next time.”
It was unusual for Ji Shuyan to be touched on the head like this, and his back stiffened.
If it was before, if Duan Zhi dared to reach out his hand, his paw would be chopped off by him.
But today… Ji Shuyan pursed his lips and endured it.
“Uh-huh.”
Thanks for the chapter I love it more updates 😍🥰🤩💗😘
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Wow, duan zhi is more mature than half of the bl mls out there! Both of thm are so reasonable it feels so good to read!! Waiting for the next update thanks
I’m betting that ji shuyan was so focused on replying to duan zhi’s message at the bar 😂 glad that everything ended well and he’s safe from harm! 💙
Real cat and his shit-shoveling officer couple, ahahah
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Thank You for the new chapter (´,,•ω•,,)♡
Thanks for the translation ❤️