Although it wasn’t the kind of action that would normally warrant a slap, the other person had only lightly patted him, but Ye Chengyi, being a strong child since he was little, still made Chu Tingyun feel some pain.
Thus, this gesture directly dispersed the previously ambiguous atmosphere, along with any lingering flirtation Chu Tingyun had. He felt a bit annoyed and even thought about picking up Ye Chengyi and giving him a couple of hard swats on the bottom.
“…Ghost?”
Chengyi was confused for a few seconds, his hand gently stroking the man’s cheek, feeling the warm and delicate texture beneath his fingertips.
As if finally realizing something, the boy’s eyes slowly widened.
Just when Chu Tingyun was surprised, thinking that the other really believed it, the person lying on the bed suddenly sat up sharply.
Bang—
The two were too close, and Chengyi’s movement was too quick. Chu Tingyun didn’t react in time and was hit in the nose.
“Ugh…”
That position was very sensitive, causing Chu Tingyun to let out a muffled groan, and tears instinctively formed in his eyes.
“Tingyun Gege!”
Chengyi didn’t care that he had also bumped his head; he instantly became fully awake and hurried to check on the other’s condition. However, as soon as he reached out, he was grabbed by Chu Tingyun.
“Good job, Ye Chengyi, you’ve really grown wings now…”
In the moment when Chu Tingyun leaned over, Chengyi tensed all over, then forcibly relaxed. He quickly controlled his instinctive resistance and obediently let himself be pinned down.
The man straddled Chengyi’s waist through the blanket, one hand pinning his wrist above his head, and the other hand gave the boy’s cheek a light pat.
“Honestly tell me, how much did you drink tonight?”
“……”
The weight on his waist made Chengyi’s Adam’s apple move silently, and he turned his head uncomfortably. This movement made his exposed neck tense, and the redness from his ears spread down to his neck.
“…Gege, I didn’t drink much.”
That was the truth; Ye Chengyi simply had a low tolerance for alcohol due to having fewer enzymes for it, and two drinks were enough to get him tipsy.
At that moment, Chu Tingyun was still holding back his anger, directly grabbing the boy’s chin and forcing his face to turn toward him.
“If you didn’t drink much, why are you so guilty? If you weren’t drunk, how dare you slap me?”
“Ugh…”
Chengyi was uncomfortable being held like that but, knowing he was in the wrong, he didn’t struggle and only tried to explain—
“I didn’t hit you, I just… touched you.”
He couldn’t finish his sentence because Chu Tingyun’s skin was so pale, and his capillaries were so shallow that just a light slap had left a faint red mark on his cheek.
He stared blankly for a few seconds, his fingers unconsciously tightening.
“I’m sorry, Gege…”
Chengyi lowered his eyes, gently holding Chu Tingyun’s wrist and bringing his hand to his own cheek, even pressing his face against the man’s palm.
“Then you can hit me back, okay?”
The boy’s messy black hair, flushed cheeks, and slightly hoarse voice revealed none of the cold detachment he usually had with others, presenting a vulnerable side as if he were offering himself up to be bullied.
“……”
For some reason, Chu Tingyun suddenly felt a bit dizzy and hot, as if he too had drunk alcohol with Ye Chengyi.
“Forget it—”
Chu Tingyun casually patted the boy’s cheek, the movement casual and flirtatious.
“Since it’s your birthday today, little friend, I won’t hold it against you.”
Today was Chengyi’s eighteenth birthday, so Chu Tingyun had specifically taken three days off to come back. However, he had returned late due to some urgent matters with the team.
Yet the matter didn’t end there; Chu Tingyun didn’t get off Chengyi but instead continued to pin him down on the bed.
“But the premise is you have to tell me those two secrets from earlier.”
“…Huh? What?”
Chengyi started to play dumb, pretending to forget what he had said.
“Gege, what secrets?”
Chu Tingyun knew this kid was smart; while he might be a bit drunk, his rationality was still clear.
So he was very certain the other was pretending.
The more Chengyi refused to say, the more curious Chu Tingyun became about those two secrets.
One was something the other wouldn’t admit no matter what.
The other was that the well-behaved little dog he had known since childhood had actually stolen his things.
Chu Tingyun found it difficult to decide which of the two was more intriguing to him. In other words, he was dying to know both.
He must find out tonight!
Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to sleep!
The man squinted: “Ye Chengyi, are you going to say it or not?”
Chengyi stubbornly refused to admit: “Say what?”
Chu Tingyun stopped talking, directly flipping off the bed and lifting the blanket. His original plan was to hold the boy down and give him a good spanking. But when he lifted the blanket, he realized he might not be able to do it.
Because, not to mention flipping him over and spanking him, it was hard just to lift him up. Chengyi was much bigger than he had imagined.
He hadn’t noticed before while covered by the blanket, but now Chu Tingyun realized that after two years, this kid had grown so much, and his legs were so long!
“…Ye Chengyi, how tall are you now?”
The boy didn’t answer; he simply got out of bed and stood in front of him.
In the process, Chu Tingyun went from looking down at him, to being level with him, and finally having to look up slightly.
“……”
The two looked at each other in silence.
Mainly, it was Chu Tingyun who was silent.
Chengyi bit his lip, trying not to laugh too obviously, then said naturally, “Last month during the check-up, the hospital measured it at one meter eighty-five.”
Chu Tingyun, who had been stuck at one meter eighty for years: “…….”
Actually, for figure skating athletes, not growing too tall is beneficial for stability, but at this moment, Chu Tingyun felt a strong urge to be a few centimeters taller.
He quickly weighed his options and realized that physical domination was impossible now, so he immediately switched tactics.
“Heh…”
He let out a light snort and turned to leave.
If Chengyi wouldn’t say, he’d just find out on his own.
Chu Tingyun was also quite clever; while his intelligence might not match Chengyi’s in academics, he had ways to deal with various life situations.
With no clues on the first secret, he decided to look for the second one that Chengyi had hidden.
Chu Tingyun was very certain that the other had definitely hidden whatever he had stolen.
Because he had not been home for a long time, and Chengyi had a spare key to his house, it was easy for him to take whatever he wanted at any time.
It just so happened that what the other person had mentioned was the day two years ago when they slept together.
This made it easy to pinpoint, because the only unusual thing Ye Chengyi did that day was go for a morning run at five o’clock, and before that, it seemed he had moved around in Chu Tingyun’s wardrobe and then used the bathroom.
So, Chu Tingyun focused on these two places, but the bathroom only had towels and toiletries, likely nothing to steal.
Maybe he stole something from the wardrobe?
Actually, Chu Tingyun couldn’t think of anything particularly valuable in the wardrobe, but after analyzing, this seemed to be the most probable possibility. So he headed straight to Ye Chengyi’s bedroom to search.
At this moment, seeing Chu Tingyun heading directly to his house, Chengyi was panicking, and he immediately chased after him.
“Tingyun Gege, Zhou Ze is still at my house. He’s drunk and sleeping in my room…”
As he was speaking, Chengyi noticed that his friend, who should have been lying on the carpet in his room, was somehow now lying on the sofa in the living room. Next to the coffee table was an empty cup of water.
It seemed Zhou Ze had woken up feeling thirsty, came out for a drink, and then fell onto the sofa.
His friend was sleeping soundly, not even waking up as Chu Tingyun and Chengyi barged in.
Chu Tingyun didn’t care about the sleeping Zhou Ze and directly entered Ye Chengyi’s bedroom, then turned back to lock the door.
Just as he was about to forcefully stop the other, he found himself locked outside by Chu Tingyun: “……..”
Crap.
Generally speaking, bedrooms at home aren’t locked. And Chengyi had never thought he would one day find himself locked out of his own bedroom.
So he had no idea where the key to the bedroom was.
The boy pressed his ear against the door, but a few years ago, in order not to disturb his studies, his parents had made his room soundproof. So no matter how hard he tried, he could only hear some faint sounds. This gave him no clue about what Chu Tingyun was doing inside or what he had found.
Knock knock knock!
Ye Chengyi was rarely so flustered and anxious, banging on the door and shouting—
“Tingyun Gege… Chu Tingyun!!!”
Zhou Ze, sleeping on the sofa, found it noisy, turned over, and covered his ears with a cushion to continue sleeping.
After seven tense minutes for Chengyi, the door lock clicked.
It should be the person inside unlocking the door, but at that moment, the boy outside hesitated to enter.
Chengyi took a deep breath and pushed the door open.
Before he went to Chu Tingyun’s house, he had lit the incense sent by Sister Jingzhu in his bedroom. Now that he pushed the door open, there was no smell of alcohol inside, only a faint scent of lily of the valley.
However, Chengyi was too anxious; the first thing he did when he entered was to nervously look under the end of the bed, but in that instant, he realized he had made a huge mistake.
Because Chu Tingyun’s next move was to lift up the end of the bed.
There was a storage space underneath, typically used for seasonal bedding. But there was nothing like that in Chengyi’s bed.
—Only a beautiful wooden box.
And it had a password lock.
Chu Tingyun held the small box up in front of the boy, shaking it with a fox-like triumphant smile.
“Looks like it’s in here.”
He picked it up and started trying passwords right away.
“Chu Tingyun!”
Last time, Chengyi had been forced to let him try a payment password; he couldn’t let Chu Tingyun try a second time.
…Because it was still that same password.
Click—
The faint sound of unlocking was clearly audible in the room.
Ye Chengyi’s anxious heart finally sank.
And as he saw what was inside the box, Chu Tingyun fell silent.
Although he had been training outside for years, Chu Tingyun still had the confidence of someone who watched this child grow up.
Both of his parents were highly educated, and their methods of educating him were excellent. Therefore, in terms of character, morals, studies, and abilities, Ye Chengyi was truly the perfect child from someone else’s family.
So Chu Tingyun wracked his brain but couldn’t figure out what such a child would steal from him.
When he finally saw the items inside the box, Chu Tingyun’s mind completely went blank.
Because he had been training outside for a long time and hadn’t returned home often, especially after joining the national team, he only came back every two or three years. So he had given a spare key to Chengyi.
One time, when Chu Tingyun returned and was about to take a shower, he found he had no underwear, so he asked the boy to go downstairs and buy some.
At that time, the twelve or thirteen-year-old Ye Chengyi was completely just a little kid in Chu Tingyun’s mind. Plus, since they were both boys, there was no psychological barrier for Chu Tingyun to ask his younger brother to do such a thing, nor did he think it was inappropriate for such private items like underwear.
“…Okay, Gege.”
Chengyi was stunned for a long time, but in the end, he obediently ran down to buy it for him, even washing and drying it, folding it neatly. Later, every time Chu Tingyun returned to stay, there would be clean changes in the wardrobe, and the clothes smelled nice. The whole house felt tidy and welcoming…
Not the kind of clean that comes from a place that had been empty for a long time but rather a warm, lived-in feeling…
At this moment, Chu Tingyun thought for a long time, replaying what had happened that night in his mind, and gradually he found the answer.
So he slowly raised his head to meet the boy at the door, whose gaze was filled with despair.
The two exchanged looks, silent. In the end, it was Chu Tingyun who took a gentle breath first.
“Xun Xun, so you…wet the bed that day?”
Otherwise, why would he steal a pair of his underwear?
Chu Tingyun could only think of this answer. After all, the impression of the child in his mind was too good. And if it was some shameful habit, why did he only steal one?
So it should be necessary
Theft situation.
For example – bed-wetting.
“…”
He never expected that the first thing the other person would say was this.
“Gege! How could I wet the bed?! It’s clearly Zhou Ze who still wets the bed at sixteen!!”
In his embarrassment and anger, Chengyi blurted out and directly threw his foolish friend under the bus.
Chu Tingyun: “…….”
He looked at Chengyi suspiciously, as if trying to guess whether the other was using his friend as a shield to cover up for himself.
In any case, Chu Tingyun revealed what was in the box.
Inside was a clean pair of underwear wrapped in black silk.
“Okay then, how do you explain this?”
“……”
This definitely needed an explanation.
Between the explanations of wetting the bed, nocturnal emissions, and having a bizarre habit of stealing underwear, Chengyi had no choice.
And the fact was just that!
“I… that night I…”
The last few words the boy said very softly. Chu Tingyun couldn’t hear clearly and leaned in closer to listen.
“Hmm? What was that night?”
“It was…”
Chengyi closed his eyes and could only repeat it again.
“It was my first time dreaming, and then…”
As a result, after hearing this, Chu Tingyun was taken aback, looked the boy up and down a few times, and then turned away and laughed out loud.
“Pfft! Hahaha…”
He finally understood why Chengyi suddenly went crazy that night and got up at five in the morning to go for a run.
It turned out that the other person had wet his pants from a dream, had no underwear to change into, and could only steal his, so he must have felt so ashamed that he needed to run a few laps.
“Hahahahahaha!”
The more Chu Tingyun thought about it, the funnier it became. He could imagine the little dog feeling guilty and ashamed, desperately escaping the scene.
Chengyi had thought that Chu Tingyun would feel awkward or have some strange thoughts upon discovering this. After all, it was a private item, something worn closely to the body.
Especially if Chu Tingyun had any thoughts about him in that way, he should have felt a bit uncomfortable upon learning this.
But Chengyi never expected that Chu Tingyun had not a shred of discomfort and purely treated this as an embarrassing story, laughing without restraint.
This complete lack of concern felt as if… he regarded Chengyi as a biological younger brother from the bottom of his heart.
The original embarrassment was overshadowed by a sudden irritation and frustration, and Chengyi silently clenched his fists.
He directly went over and pinned the man who was laughing uncontrollably on the bed.
“Chu Tingyun! Stop laughing!”
“Hahaha… it’s fine, Xunxun, you can wear it. After all, you bought it, you washed it, and it seems like it’s still new since I never wore it.”
Chu Tingyun thought there was nothing to it.
It was a normal physiological phenomenon for a boy going through puberty. Chu Tingyun experienced it himself at fourteen. He had thought the little dog had stolen something really embarrassing and was hiding it tightly, and it turned out to be this.
More importantly, compared to this, Chu Tingyun wanted to know something else.
“But Xunxun, what did you dream about that night? I also had dreams during puberty, but they were all jumbled up, and I couldn’t remember when I woke up.”
Chu Tingyun lazily lay under the boy, having just laughed to the point of tears, his dark lashes damp, and he even gave Chengyi a flirtatious wink.
“Xun Xun, tell your gege~”
In that moment, it felt like a fine current suddenly surged into the boy’s heart, making his whole chest tingle.
Cheng Yi instinctively covered the man’s eyes with his hand.
“…Hmm?”
The sudden darkness made Chu Tingyun let out a puzzled hum. His collar had unknowingly loosened, revealing a beautiful collarbone.
Cheng Yi’s Adam’s apple moved slightly, and he didn’t answer the second question, but continued with the first half of his sentence—
“I can’t wear it now.”
The boy leaned down and said softly,
“Gege, yours is… too small.”
Chu Tingyun’s smile gradually faded: “……..?”
What?!
Chengyi, say that again!!!
The incident from years ago had finally come back around like a boomerang.
Chu Tingyun was so angry that he immediately wanted to pull the hand covering his eyes down and deal with this…
Just as that thought crossed his mind, he suddenly felt a warm and soft touch at the corner of his lips.
Like… a kiss.
But it was just a light brush, so subtle that Chu Tingyun felt like everything that had just happened was an illusion.
Until the next second, when the darkness turned into light, he saw Chengyi’s face, blushing and so close.
“Chu Tingyun, this is the dream I had that night.”
The boy was slightly out of breath from nervousness, his gentle gaze full of Chu Tingyun’s reflection.
“It’s also my first secret.”
“…….”
In that instant, realizing what those words meant, Chu Tingyun’s sensitive nerves suddenly tensed, as if countless currents were crackling in his mind.
Originally, Chengyi hadn’t planned to be so direct; he wanted to hint at it or lay some groundwork first. After all, the other person had always seemed heterosexual.
But perhaps it was because of Chu Tingyun’s nonchalance about the underwear incident, or maybe because Chengyi had drunk tonight.
In any case, in a moment of impulse, he just said it outright.
However, after saying it, Chengyi felt a twinge of regret. He nervously stared at the man’s expression, as if waiting for a verdict, anticipating his response and reaction.
Chu Tingyun’s breathing gradually became heavier. He reached out to stroke the boy’s hair, running his fingers from the back of his head to his neck, gently caressing the skin there for a long time before casually asking—
“Clarify it for me, Xunxun, what secret?”
“……”
At this point, Chengyi was so nervous he couldn’t think much. He just answered whatever Chu Tingyun asked.
“Tingyun-gege, I like you.”
After saying this, Chengyi saw the man smile, looking particularly handsome. But it seemed the other person wasn’t satisfied with this answer and asked him again.
“Did you just kiss me?”
“……???”
“It wasn’t a very good kiss, little friend.”
“……”
Chengyi was stunned for a moment, and then Chu Tingyun turned over and pressed him under him and kissed him.
A twenty-four-year-old man wouldn’t just lightly brush his lips; the moment their lips met, it was as if Chu Tingyun had instinctively mastered a hundred and eight kissing techniques.
Of course, that was an exaggerated statement.
In short, he couldn’t describe the feeling at the moment. The blood in his body seemed to be burning. He sucked, licked and kissed the boy’s lips as if he was addicted. The boy was like candy with poppy added, making him want to lick off the next layer of sweeter sugar juice quickly like an addiction.
Chu Tingyun has always been so straightforward in his behavior since he was a child. He always follows his own heart. If he wants something, he will work hard for it. If he likes something, he will definitely get it.
The thin layer of window paper was broken by Ye Chengyi’s words “I like you”. Chu Tingyun quickly recalled all the experiences they had had together since childhood. Countless ambiguous but ignored moments in the past now appeared before his eyes.
Chu Tingyun didn’t react in time and just went ahead and kissed him. As they kissed, the “family affection” between gege and the younger brother changed.
So this is what kissing feels like.
Chu Tingyun has been traveling between China and Russia since he was a child, and often goes abroad to play games. He has seen too many couples kissing passionately, but his slight obsession with cleanliness has always prevented him from understanding the act of exchanging saliva.
Until now.
F*ck.
Why is this child so cuddly?
No wonder those couples like to kiss when they are in love…
Unlike Chu Tingyun who was still thinking about a bunch of things at this time, alcohol and hormones seemed to have occupied all of Chengyi’s nerves.
He didn’t react at all, and within just a dozen seconds, he was pressed into the quilt and kissed all over, and was coaxed into opening his mouth and sticking out his tongue.
The first kiss was such a hot lip and tongue contact with the brother he loved, which was too exciting for Ye Chengyi who had just become an adult. He even felt that every inch of his nerve endings was trembling at this moment.
The neatly-fitted pajamas were lifted up, and Chengyi felt the man touching him. He was touching his waist, his lower abdomen, and then his chest muscles that he had deliberately trained in the past two years. With a rustling sound, the hem of his pajamas was lifted almost from his waist to his collarbone.
Chu Tingyun temporarily ended the kiss, his eyes casually sweeping over the handsome boy’s red face, his panting wet lips, and his rolling Adam’s apple, then down to his beautiful collarbone and strong chest muscles…
He doesn’t know when the little kid in his memory who fell on the ice and couldn’t get up has grown into this pretty face.
Chu Tingyun really wanted to whistle, but at the same time he felt a little unbalanced that the other person had a better figure than him.
At this moment, Chengyi, whose cheeks were hot from being kissed, grabbed his clothes and asked him with rapid breathing: “What about you, gege… do you like me?”
“I like it!”
Chu Tingyun was so excited that he felt like he was drunk. He even bent down and kissed the boy again.
“I love you so much, sweetheart.”
“……”
Chengyi stopped talking. He turned his head and shrank towards the pillow, looking a little shy.
Until the next second, Chu Tingyun reached out to touch his butt.
Snap——
Chengyi grabbed the man’s wrist. He hadn’t even caught his breath yet and his voice sounded completely unintimidating.
“Gege, do you want to…?”
Of course Chu Tingyun didn’t want that right now, he just wanted to touch the kid’s butt.
However, Chengyi’s words made Chu Tingyun think that the good boy was conservative and afraid, so he planned to scare the other party.
So Chu Tingyun bit the collar of his team uniform, unzipped it with one hand, and deliberately scared him by saying –
“Is it not possible, Xunxun?”
The boy stared at him, his eyelashes trembling slightly: “…It’s not impossible.”
Chu Tingyun was stunned: “?”
Then, the boy’s hand slowly caressed his lower back, and said worriedly in a very caring and obedient tone –
“I’m just afraid…you can’t.”
Chu Tingyun: “???”
You say who can’t? ! !
