Chu Tingyun did have mysophobia.
Because of this, even though he had many suitors since he was a child and had dated a few people he was quite fond of, in the end, he still found the act of exchanging saliva difficult to accept.
So on that night four years ago, Chu Tingyun never thought that he would actually forcibly kiss a male student who had just vomited after getting drunk.
Even to the point of being addicted to it and unable to extricate oneself.
A more elegant and subtle way of saying it might be “love at first sight,” but a more straightforward and appropriate description would be “lust at first sight.”
In short, when this male student with cold and handsome eyebrows but a flushed face and even the smell of milk in his breath pressed on him, panting and pretending to be fierce, Chu Tingyun’s blood started to burn.
Before his brain could react, he kissed him.
Yan Xun drank a lot of water on the way back, and just now he was fed half a bottle of milk. There was no strange smell in his mouth, but rather…
Chu Tingyun couldn’t describe the feeling. In short, the moment their lips touched, an indescribable stimulation rushed up from deep in his bone marrow and spread throughout his body like an electric current, stimulating every cell in his body to go numb.
Almost like a small org-asm.
Yan Xun was completely stunned by the kiss.
Being forcibly kissed by a man was something that had never existed in Yan Xun’s world. After all, he had always considered himself a straight guy, and most of the advances he had received came from girls.
It wasn’t until his tongue sensed the tingling sensation of being sucked and licked, and until he clearly heard the ambiguous sound of the kiss, that Yan Xun finally reacted.
Shock, anger, and a strong sense of shame and violation all mixed together, exploding instantly.
Yan Xun sobered up immediately.
And so, Chu Tingyun, who had forcibly kissed a male student, immediately got his comeuppance. First, he was punched, then he was mercilessly kicked off the bed.
Bang—
A heavy thud sounded as his body hit the carpet.
Yan Xun’s adoptive father used to run a martial arts gym, so even though Yan Xun had always been a well-behaved, good student, he’d never lost a fight once he got serious. That’s why, when Zhou Ze was young, he stubbornly insisted on becoming his lackey, refusing to leave no matter what.
That’s how the reclusive Yan Xun ended up with such a long-time good friend.
Naturally, Chu Tingyun, who lived a pampered life in his office every day, was no match. The sudden intense pain left him lying on the ground for quite a while, unable to recover. However, in the next second, he was yanked up by the young man with one hand.
The other party roughly pulled off his tie, pressed him face down onto the bed, and tied his hands behind his back.
At this point, Chu Tingyun also came to his senses, quickly realizing that things were starting to spiral out of control.
Humiliated and furious, he began to struggle violently, “Let me go!”
The strength of a grown man is certainly not to be underestimated. Yan Xun had to exert quite a bit of effort to finally hold him down.
Yan Xun hadn’t really seen Chu Tingyun’s face clearly; his blurred glance earlier had only left the impression that this person was probably a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a hypocrite.
And at this moment, the intense sense of shame made him unable to look directly at the other person.
Anyway, they didn’t know each other, and maybe after today, they would never meet again. It would be best not to remember his face, lest he obsess over it.
All he needed to know was that the one who forcibly kissed him was a man with ill intentions.
So Yan Xun completely ignored whatever this person was saying and directly yanked off the man’s leather shoes.
Being stripped and forcibly kissed by a strange man was truly a humiliation. Just thinking back a little made Yan Xun feel like his whole body was burning up.
Although he very much wanted to give tit for tat, he couldn’t just kiss back. If he were to beat the man up for real, and the guy called the police, it would be troublesome.
The school might also punish him or even expel him.
Even if it was just a possibility, Yan Xun absolutely could not afford such consequences.
So, the safest form of retaliation he could think of, which would be enough to give the other party an equal amount of humiliation, was…
He directly grabbed that expensive genuine leather shoe and smacked Chu Tingyun’s butt several times with it.
Smack! Smack! Smack!
The clean suit pants were instantly covered with messy, dirty shoe prints.
At the moment when someone used his own leather shoe to smack his butt, Chu Tingyun was completely stunned to the point where his brain couldn’t function.
As a result, he didn’t struggle or resist at all. He just knelt at the edge of the bed, burying his face deeply into the milk-soaked bedding without making a sound.
But his neck was visibly flushed, veins bulging, clearly humiliated to the extreme, unable to lift his head.
Yan Xun thought it through carefully; with all that fat on the butt, even a hard beating would at most result in a superficial injury. Besides, he figured someone as seemingly refined as this wolf in sheep’s clothing wouldn’t pull down his pants and run crying to the police.
After a few satisfying smacks, Yan Xun threw the shoe away and fiercely wiped his lips.
“This is just a warning! Stay away from me from now on!”
“…”
The man lying by the bed didn’t speak. He merely turned his face to glance at him.
Chu Tingyun’s hair was completely soaked by the milk on the bed, sticking messily to his forehead. His beautiful blue eyes stared deeply at Yan Xun, and the intense pain and humiliation made the rims of his eyes wet and red.
There was a kind of extreme, broken feeling, as if he had been brutally abused.
The man, furious to the point of laughter, said to him word by word:
“I’ll remember you.”
“…”
Yan Xun stood frozen in place for two seconds. Then, grabbing his backpack, he fled the hotel as if running for his life.
At that time, Yan Xun thought they would never meet again in this lifetime. But he never imagined that the man who had forcibly kissed him would become his future husband.
Nor did he expect that four years later, on a certain day, history would repeat itself, and with his memory lost, he would react in a completely different way.
Because the man who had once forcibly kissed him was a stranger with ill intentions, and the place was a hotel bed.
But now, the one kissing him was his fiancé, with whom he had a marital agreement, and the place was their home.
So Yan Xun gradually stopped resisting. He instinctively held onto Chu Tingyun’s lower back, and under his intentional guidance, began to tentatively respond.
When it came to kissing, Yan Xun’s understanding was limited to just touching lips. But Chu Tingyun was obviously not satisfied with just that. He pinched the sensitive, flushed tip of Yan Xun’s ear, slowly stroking down to his Adam’s apple, coaxing him to open his mouth a bit more.
“Mmm…”
Yan Xun had never experienced such… such an almost lingering deep kiss.
All he could hear was the sound of kisses and heated breaths in his ears. The stimulation from the alcohol and intimate act made his breathing heavy, as if the blood in his whole body was rushing madly. As a result, the kiss didn’t last very long because, after just a few kisses, the young man, full of vitality, had a reaction.
Scientifically speaking, it was quite normal, but Yan Xun didn’t know that. He only knew that after Chu Tingyun kissed him a few times, he shamefully responded to this man. As a virgin with zero sexual experience after losing his memory, this was enough to shock him greatly.
For example, he might like men.
For example, he might actually like Chu Tingyun.
At this moment, even though Yan Xun tried his best to hide his body’s reaction, Chu Tingyun, being a man himself, had already noticed it the first moment.
He realized that Yan Xun, after losing his memory, seemed to have reverted to his old self, reacting so strongly to just a few kisses.
Yan Xun quickly adjusted his breathing and unnaturally averted his gaze. “Did I really kiss you like this before?”
“Yes.”
Chu Tingyun licked his lips, leaning lazily against him,
“You even tied me up, pressed me on the bed, and smacked my butt with a shoe.”
Yan Xun: “…???”
He suddenly understood why, back in the café, the other man had said that the past couldn’t be discussed in public.
“Chu Tingyun, are you lying to me?”
Upon hearing this, the man chuckled and said, “If I’m lying about this, may I suffer from impotence and never get it up again.”
“…!” What a vicious oath.
Yan Xun looked at him deeply for a few seconds and believed him. At that moment, he began to have unprecedented doubts about his own character.
“Then why did you… why did you still marry me?”
“Because you slept with me.”
Chu Tingyun replied shamelessly,
“You need to take responsibility.”
Yan Xun: “…”
It kind of made sense.
He didn’t ask why they were getting a divorce because Chu Tingyun would probably just say, “You’re too young and not up to it.”
So, he couldn’t stay glued to Chu Tingyun any longer.
Although Yan Xun thought the reason for divorce given by Chu Tingyun was deliberately deceitful, what if it was true? If things continued to develop like this, wouldn’t he just be humiliating himself?
“The… the wine bottle broke.”
Yan Xun found a clumsy excuse and gently pushed him away.
“I’ll clean it up so you don’t step on it later.”
“Okay.”
President Chu didn’t expose him either. He shifted aside to make room for the broken glass on the floor.
Yan Xun went to get a broom and carefully swept up the glass shards on the floor, put them in a cardboard box, sealed it, and labeled it with “Glass Shards, Caution” in marker.
While doing these things, Chu Tingyun kept watching him. The young man, who had a low tolerance for alcohol, was clearly a bit drunk. Besides the drunken flush on his cheeks, you could also tell from the way he was writing, each stroke slow and deliberate like a schoolchild.
Suddenly, Chu Tingyun said, “You also broke my glasses.”
Yan Xun: “…I’ll compensate you.”
As expected.
A person like Yan Xun is actually easy to read; he’s just a good kid, disciplined by society’s mainstream values.
Filial, sensible, kind, honest, gentle, and highly empathetic with a strong sense of justice—all seemingly wonderful but dull qualities, he possesses them all.
Chu Tingyun had never been interested in such people, but
Chu Tingyun gave him a deep look, smiled, and tentatively said:
“How about… at the wedding the day after tomorrow, you go and grab the bride’s bouquet to make it up to me?”
“…Bouquet?”
Yan Xun had been drinking, so his reaction was a bit slow.
Typically, it was unmarried girls who would go for the bouquet. It’s said that whoever catches the bouquet will soon marry their beloved.
After the same-sex marriage law passed, a few men also started to go for it.
Yan Xun was puzzled: “But aren’t we already married?”
“Yeah, we are.”
Chu Tingyun put down his wine glass and walked over, gently wiping a tear from the corner of the young man’s eye with his finger.
“We are already married, but you never grabbed a bouquet for me before.”
“…”
Yan Xun was stunned for a moment. He looked into those blue eyes that were staring intently at him and, for some reason, felt his heart soften.
“Alright then, Chu Tingyun,”
he lowered his head and said a bit helplessly,
“I’ll go grab one for you.”
