The next day, Liu Yuāan tries to hug Shao Yanxi when waking up, but thereās nothing. When he opens his eyes, thereās nobody by his side.
Itās not the very first time Shao Yanxi woke up earlier than he did, so Liu Yuāan just yawns and gets his phone from the bedside cabinet to look at the time.
Thereās a message though, from Shao Yanxi, [Iām going to the company now. Remember to eat breakfast. Thank you for helping with the work I left last night. Iāll visit you at work when it becomes less chaotic at mine. Love you]
Liu Yuāan instead focuses on the time the message was sent. 06:15. Itās 08:19 right now. He left over two hours ago. Liu Yuāanās hand sweeps across the bed besides him. Itās cold already.
He cusses before quickly getting up, and heads for Shao Yanxiās company after washing his face.
There, he is informed Shao Yanxi isnāt at the company. He had a meeting.
Liu Yuāan āā¦ā
He sends a message to Shao Yanxi, telling him that he wouldnāt be at the movie studio these few days to be with him, and then chats with the ladies at the secretariat for a short while before leaving, as he can also see how busy even the secretariat is. Theyāve probably even delegated less important but menial work to them; unimaginable on normal days.
Itās really cold outside. December has truly set in.
While driving home, Liu Yuāan gets a call from Zhao Xian. He sounds like heās trying really hard to stay calm, āAn-ge, I found a book. I sent it to your WeChat. Youā¦ Umā¦ Cough. I just need to tell you beforehand thatā¦ Itās, odd. Different. Iā¦ You might want to read it carefully.ā
āDifferent how?ā Liu Yuāan canāt help but feel his heart sinking at that comment.
āYeah!ā Itās Zhuang Feiyu at the other end now, who says, sounding quite excited, āhaha! Itās one of those doujin fanfiction things between you and Mr. Shao. An-ge, you know what doujins are? They are things based on real people like you. I read some of it a bit ago and itās super creepy how real it got. If I didnāt know any better Iād have suspected you wrote it yourself! So much of it matchesā¦ And, burp, thereās something else hahahaha! The author wrote so much smut between you and Mr. Shao and itās a damned good readā¦ā
Liu Yuāan is 100% certain itās the book he feared exist by this point. Though he would really, really prefer if Zhuang Feiyu isnāt laughing at all the āsmut,ā he thinks, his face looking a bit scary.
Meanwhile, Zhuang Feiyuās voice also largely disappears, and Liu Yuāan can faintly hear that Zhao Xian is telling him to shut up.
Zhao Xian then tells him, āAn-ge, Xiao-Yu didnāt mean anything by that. Why donāt you go see if itās the book you looked for first? Iāll tell them to wipe the book online.ā
In any case, heās also shocked at the denseness Zhuang Feiyu could have. Unless heās a pervert, who the heck would want to hear about their fanfiction smut scenes with their partner being published online. What a dumbass.
Zhao Xian was informed of the book yesterday. He was hesitant even in telling Liu Yuāan about it when he read it through. Although the plot did fit a lot of what Liu Yuāan asked for, itās also filled with R18+ scenes, with it being practically 1/3 erotica by the latter chapters. And itās written in quite theā¦ kuhum, arousing manner as well. Zhao Xian is worried Liu Yuāan would be royally pissed off.
Of course, Zhao Xian is even more fearful that Shao Yanxi might see it instead, because it depicts him likeā¦ Soft. And prone to crying. Especially whenever they are doing it. Crying. Crying for him to go faster, to go slower, to āshootā within himā¦ Crying while calling out āhubby.ā
If Shao Yanxi saw that he gave this to Liu Yuāan, oh, boy. Given how close the two of them are, especially in private, itās a possibility all too real.
That said, with how serious Liu Yuāan was in requesting him of this, and all the benefits Liu Yuāan promised, Zhao Xian still decided to inform Liu Yuāan of this.
Though he also decided to only give him the part featuring him and Shao Yanxi, just in case. He trimmed out everything featuring Jiang He and Yue Zhun as protagonists and treated Shao Yanxi and Liu Yuāan as antagonists/cannon fodders.
āAlright.ā
Liu Yuāan realised as soon as he stopped the car and started reading the book on the side of the road. While the book is exactly what he wanted, but everything about Jiang He and Yue Zhun is gone. In fact, this book is an exact description of this exact bugged out world itself, even describing that heās here to do his āmission,ā and why he has to do such a mission, is completely spot-on. This is completely unexpected.
In any case, if Shao Yanxi saw thisā¦ No. He cannot see this himself. Ever.
Liu Yuāan feels like calling Shao Yanxi to pass it off as a joke first. Itās probably the best-case scenario, just in case Zhao Xian couldnāt wipe it out completely online and Shao Yanxi still came across it somehow.
Though, when he called, Shao Yanxi didnāt pick up. Heās probably still busy. So Liu Yuāan calls Zhao Xian instead.
āWas the file you sent me the entire book itself?ā
After reading it some more Liu Yuāan can see odd transitions here and there suggesting thereās something left out in the middle. He suspects Zhao Xian might have trimmed it out himself because he thought itās unimportant at that point.
āNo. Did you want everything? Iāll send it over later.ā
Zhao Xian thought that he asked for him to look this up in the first place because he might have heard about this smutty fanfiction somewhere and thenā¦ Like him, was horrified to hear/read that Shao Yanxi was depicted like this. So he might not be interested in the plot part of the book.
So now that Liu Yuāan wants it he sends the whole book over as he hangs up.
Reading it, Liu Yuāan is certain it is exactly what he wanted and feared, with the description of Jiang He and Yue Zhun as well.
Liu Yuāan decides to call Shao Yanxi again. He still isnāt picking up, so Liu Yuāan decides to wait until tonight, and drives home.
At dusk, Shao Yanxi finally calls him back. Only asking, āwho are you?ā