After a week of being strangled awake by Shao Yanxiâs octopus-grab, to a week of quality sleep until morning under the octopus-grab, now Liu Yuâan has evolved to hold Shao Yanxi in his embrace until waking up.
The next day, when Liu Yuâan wakes up, and sees Shao Yanxi who is still latching onto him with all his limbs while being hugged by him, he canât help but think â habit really is a terrifying thing.
The more terrifying thing is how well heâs adapting to it.
Then, he closes his eyes again, ready to sleep in. He has no work scheduled today, so he wonât be late or anything.
But then soon enough he realises Shao Yanxi must be awake because he can feel kisses on him, like a chicken pecking at rice, poking his mouth, before quietly lifting his arm to carefully nudge it away.
For some reason, this reminds Liu Yuâan of that classic Chinese story of cutting off clothes .
He chuckles.
âYouâre awake?â Shao Yanxi notices immediately when heâs chuckling, and his heart skips a beat. Slightly embarrassed, his ears turn red, and his gaze darts around until it settles on the ceiling, as if there are flowers on the ceiling for him to admire.
Liu Yuâan then moves his arm forward to lock him back into his embrace and kisses him on his reddened ears, âwaking up so early?â
âYeah, Iâm awake,â he says, not budging an inch, and even turning to face Liu Yuâan in the meantime.
Then they inevitably engage in some quality time together, and Shao Yanxi only finally gets up after having several stamps planted on his collarbone by Liu Yuâan.
He notices them when dressing, and quickly wraps himself up tight with clothes.
Liu Yuâan ââŚâ
Does he think intentionally covering them up is any less suspicious?
After Shao Yanxi is done washing his face does Liu Yuâan slowly struggle out of bed.
He then brushes his teeth and washes his face as Shao Yanxi waited before heading downstairs in his pyjamas.
Apparently, Liu Yuxi also stayed for the night, as he is currently sitting on the sofa alongside his father, with a newspaper each in their hands.
Who knows why theyâre sticking to traditional media. Though he does greet them properly.
He and Shao Yanxi sit opposite them. They chat a bit before the servant starts serving breakfast. Then they begin moving towards the dining room, during which the topic again shifts to finance somehow.
Liu Yuâan has been an executive in the past so he knows what theyâre talking about. He acts aloof though because⌠the original cannon fodder doesnât, so if he does then he is likely to be busted and also, most importantly, if he does show that he knows, heâd be ruining his own free time.
Liu Yuxi would never let him off the hook.
Even when he looks like he knows nothing about this, Liu Yuxi is still often pestering his father to drag him off to the company to help.
So Liu Yuâan decides to employ the role of a little hamster and keeps eating while they are in a heated discussion, until Ren Jianzhang called, and he leaves the table with an âIâll get it.â
Liu Yuâan thought something was up, but turns out he had to share He Anranâs post again, as she replied again.
From how she behaved during the reality show it was quite obvious He Anran is quite the pragmatist in life. Sheâs doing this probably because of Shao Yanxi, so he canât help but feel slightly annoyed.
Though thinking about how Ren Jianzhang is tearing his hair out over things like this he accepts, âIâll reply right now.â
After hanging up, Liu Yuâan opens up WeChat to find her several Trending topics.
#HAR, Grateful#
#HAR helping newbie#
Liu Yuâan could even see his name in one of them.
#Why newbie LYA is favoured by HAR#
It makes Liu Yuâan furrow his brow slightly. The topic is probably bought. Though, that said, he is practically getting free popularity, so never mind.
He decides to go with a simple [Youâre welcome] reply and then surf around, and sees that thereâs even a few Trending topics of the show.
#Celebs Wilderness Survival#
#WJX, Celebs Wilderness Survival#
Liu Yuâan opens the official endorsement account to find that the show has decided to capitalise on He Anranâs postsâ popularity to release some teasers from the show.
âNo wonderâŚâ
Liu Yuâan looks at the time of posting to see that it was actually just freshly posted. No wonder Ren Jianzhang didnât tell him to share this as well. That is when Ren Jianzhang called again, just to tell him to share the post.
In the end, he decides to tentatively ask, âmaybe, we can manage your WeChat account for you?â
Liu Yuâan has no idea how to sell himself or interact, itâs really frustrating.
âSure,â Liu Yuâan says. He doesnât use it for anything other than browsing anyway, so he tells Ren Jianzhang the password, so he can do whatever he wants with it.
When he heads back to the table, his father and older brother has already finished their discussion and are heading off to work.
He says goodbye to them before asking Shao Yanxi, âwhen are we going?â
Shao Yanxi looks at his pyjamas, ânow.â
Itâs already nine, and work is going to pile up.
âWait for me to change,â then Liu Yuâan quickly heads upstairs to change. His mother is also up by the time he comes back down, chatting to Shao Yanxi.
Seeing him, his mother stops and tells Shao Yanxi, âvisit us again when youâre free.â
Then they leave as Liu Yuâanâs mother sees them off. On the way, Liu Yuâan asks, âwhat were you chatting about?â
âJust telling us to go back often when weâre free.â
Liu Yuâan goes âI see.â
Soon enough theyâre at the company. After going up with him, Liu Yuâan spends a bit of time in Shao Yanxiâs office before heading home himself.
Without work, Liu Yuâan has finally gone back to his daily life of lazing about. Sleeping until the sun is high up, then finally waking up and making lunch, and then delivering said lunch, and then have an afternoon nap in his office despite how long heâs slept already, then head home togetherâŚ
Speaking of, Liu Yuâan has managed to sell the private jet heâd bought. As for the yacht, he couldnât find a buyer, so he had to let it be.
Outside of that, Liu Yuâan even dragged Shao Yanxi to northern Europe when there was a happy four-day weekend+holiday. There, in a skiing resort, Liu Yuâan spent two days teaching Shao Yanxi how to ski.
Shao Yanxi had bad physical coordination, so he kept falling over. Liu Yuâan felt quite bad seeing that, and kissed him and when he helped him up and asked, âletâs stop this? Itâs nothing even if you canât ski.â
Shao Yanxi shook his head, his nose reddened by the cold, saying, âI want to learn this.â
Since he already started, he would not give up in the middle. Finally, after two daysâ hard work, Shao Yanxi learned how to ski. Really, if not for the thick protective clothing, heâd probably have to lie in bed at that point from falling over so many times.
Even with the clothing his body still ached afterwards, as evidenced by how he was sitting uncomfortably, which Liu Yuâan noticed when he saw Shao Yanxi sitting slightly awkwardly when he was lounging on the sofa with him.
Liu Yuâan asked, and Shao Yanxiâs face went red when he replied, âmm, it hurts a little.â
âJust say that earlierâŚâ
Liu Yuâan then stopped himself; it wasnât Shao Yanxiâs fault. He was being inattentive.
That night, Liu Yuâan bought cream to apply on Shao Yanxi, during which he had to make Shao Yanxi lie on the bed on his stomach.
Although the position made Shao Yanxi so embarrassed his face went beet-red, he still obediently followed instructions.
He was behaving so well that Liu Yuâan kissed him, and then asked if he wanted him to help do his work for him.
Shao Yanxi was shocked to hear that, asking, âdo you understand what the documents are saying?â
He wasnât belittling him, but just simply shocked.
âIf youâre worried, just watch on the side.â
âWhat is mine is yours,â Shao Yanxi reaffirmed his trust in Liu Yuâan.
Liu Yuâan couldnât help but sigh, he really didnât deserve Shao Yanxi.
As a former executive, Liu Yuâan easily finished dealing with the work under Shao Yanxiâs supervision.
Seeing how he managed to finish the work even faster than he could and without error, Shao Yanxi is shocked again. He stared at Liu Yuâan, mystified, uttering, âyouâŚâ
âShhh,â Liu Yuâan chuckled, âkeep it a secret from my dad and bro, I donât want to work.â
Shao Yanxi ââŚâ He actually felt a bit warm in his chest.
So that he could avoid work, Liu Yuâan even kept his ability secret from his father and older brother, but just to help himâŚ
He was so happy that tears started dropping again, so he quickly buried his head into Liu Yuâanâs embrace and started kissing him randomly on his chest, saying, muffled, âthanks.â
âHow do you plan to thank me, exactly?â
So their overseas trip ended in a very unforgettably pleasant night.
When they returned, Shao Yanxiâs eyes were slightly swollen, and was tired, too. Thankfully, he could rest well on their private jet, and looked much better when he was off the plane.
Speaking of, since Liu Yuâan wasnât afraid of letting others know of their relationship, so after getting off the plane, Liu Yuâan dragged the suitcase behind him with his right hand and held Shao Yanxiâs hand with his left. And, under the complicated gazes from the crowd, he dragged Shao Yanxi onto the car.
Which leads us to now, when Ren Jianzhang is calling him, mad. Apparently, them holding hands together was captured on video. He asks what they want to do.
Liu Yuâan thinks about it for a second before asking Shao Yanxi.
âIâm fine both ways,â and heâll support Liu Yuâan whichever way he chooses to deal with this.
âThen just let it be,â Liu Yuâan replies to Ren Jianzhang.
Ren Jianzhang ââŚâ âlet it beâ my arse.
After hanging up, Liu Yuâan opens up WeChat to spectate. Perhaps thanks to the popularity He Anran brought a few days ago, even him, an infamous, unpopular celebrity, holding hands with someone, has knocked his way into Trending without any help. Of course, itâs in the bottom of the Trending list.
He decides to sit next to Shao Yanxi to watch the video with him. In it, the two are holding hands intimately together, like a couple.
After watching it, Liu Yuâan is unhappy, âwhat kind of shitty camera did they use?â
âI think itâs good enough,â Shao Yanxi says, saving the video to his collection as he does.
Then they scroll to the comments below, to find a bloodbath.