“Okay, as long as it fits.”
Chengyi suppressed a laugh and didn’t expose him. He then found a loose, comfortable pair of black shorts and a white crew-neck T-shirt for Chu Tingyun to wear.
The man touched his chest, feeling a bit uncomfortable, then lifted his shirt to take a look. Faint bite marks clustered around, making the bright red in the center look like a half-bloomed flower bud.
“Tsk, Ye Chengyi, are you a dog or what?”
“……”
Chengyi stared at it.
After a few seconds, he swallowed hard and softly said, “Sorry, ge, I’ll go get you a Band-Aid.”
Half a minute later, he quickly returned.
But Chu Tingyun looked at the pink pixelated heart on the Band-Aid and felt speechless. He looked up at the boy with a surprised and strange expression.
“Ye Chengyi, why do you have these children’s Band-Aids?”
“…… I bought them randomly before.”
Chengyi didn’t explain much.
“They’re medical-grade, so they can be used.”
Chu Tingyun seemed a bit resistant. “Don’t you have anything else?”
Chengyi said, “Then I’ll go downstairs and buy you some.”
“Forget it, just use this.”
Chu Tingyun was too lazy to wait.
He lifted the hem of his short sleeve and bit it, reaching out to take the Band-Aid himself. But Chengyi didn’t give it to him; instead, he bent down, getting close, and gently and carefully placed it on.
The boy’s warm breath fell on Chu Tingyun’s skin, making him instinctively tighten the muscles of his chest and abdomen.
“Ge, don’t move.”
Chengyi pressed on his lower back.
“Hmph…”
The boy heard the man let out a soft grunt, and then he felt a tightness in his throat.
Suddenly, Chu Tingyun reached out and grabbed his neck, his voice muffled because he was biting his shirt.
“Don’t breathe.”
“……”
Chengyi paused, holding his breath.
But the children’s Band-Aid was a bit narrow, so he placed two of them, forming an X. The Band-Aids only covered the reddest area, while the other marks from last night were still visible, slowly rising and falling with the man’s breath.
Seeing this scene up close was quite exhilarating, so after sticking it on, Chengyi took the shirt corner that the man was biting and quickly pulled it down to completely cover the exposed skin.
Perhaps because he had been holding his breath for several seconds, the boy panted a bit. “Done.”
Chu Tingyun felt the Band-Aid and, once it was on, the friction from the fabric was gone. It indeed felt much more comfortable.
He slept until noon before getting up. Although it was his first time and he had overdone it a bit, Chu Tingyun was young and in good shape, plus Chengyi had made careful preparations beforehand. After a night’s recovery, aside from some discomfort in the areas of excessive friction, he was fine.
So at that moment, Chu Tingyun remembered the pleasure and was even in the mood to tease the younger boy by touching his obviously heaving chest.
“Breathing like this after holding it in for a bit, Xunxun? Speak a bit louder, let me hear it.”
The boy fell silent for two seconds and then leaned in to kiss the corner of Chu Tingyun’s lips.
“Don’t say things to seduce me, ge, or else you won’t get lunch and might not even be able to get out of bed tonight.”
Chu Tingyun: “……”
He suddenly recalled the humiliating experience from last night and awkwardly turned away.
“I… where’s my clothes?”
The topic shift was rather abrupt, but Chengyi didn’t press it. He smiled and answered, “I took them to wash. I took everything out of your pockets and put it on the bedside.”
“Oh.”
Chu Tingyun turned back and indeed found his things there. He went over and took out a bank card from inside, stuffing it into Chengyi’s hand.
“Here, a birthday gift.”
“……?”
Chengyi completely forgot about the birthday gift or rather, he had already considered Chu Tingyun as his birthday gift.
But a birthday gift being a bank card… typical of Chu Tingyun.
Since childhood, they had always exchanged gifts, and Chengyi always gave the best he could afford that the other liked and that carried his feelings. Meanwhile, Chu Tingyun would either give expensive items or just cash directly.
Chengyi hesitated for a moment and asked, “How much is in this?”
Chu Tingyun replied casually, “About three million.”
With all those years of competition prize money and endorsement fees from the last Olympics, the total added up to quite a bit. Chu Tingyun had earned enough to support himself without relying on his parents.
The boy fell silent for a long time, his tone complex. “Chu Tingyun, this makes me feel like you’re supporting me.”
“???”
Chu Tingyun was quite surprised.
“How could you think that? If I was supporting you, would I let you go up?”
Ye Chengyi: “………”
That actually made a bit of sense.
“And Ye Chengyi, you get scholarships every year in college, and you’ve earned a lot from various internet competitions. Last year, you even wrote a software that sold for over a million. Even the house your parents own is in your name… you think three million can buy you?”
At this point, Chu Tingyun seemed to think of something and quickly picked up his phone.
“Then I’ll just give you another three million. From now on, you just lie there and let me…”
“—Chu Tingyun!”
Chengyi was a bit annoyed.
“Can you prepare a proper gift next time and not just give money?”
“But don’t you need money right now?”
Chu Tingyun pointed towards the study.
“I’ve seen your business plan; your ambitions are quite grand, Little Ye?”
“……”
Chengyi suddenly froze, all the previous frustration instantly dissipating. Meanwhile, Chu Tingyun continued to speak, lost in his own logic.
“And also, Ye Chengyi, now that we’re together, isn’t it normal for me to spend money on you?”
Chu Tingyun had no qualms about discussing sex, let alone money. Human desires and survival inherently include these aspects.
If someone doesn’t spend money on someone they like, and doesn’t talk about sex, then what’s there to discuss about love?
Either they’re stingy, or impotent, or they simply don’t like the person at all.
“When Jiang Shenghai was pursuing my mom, he also threw millions at her, and then there was that person…”
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“Tingyun Ge…”
Before Chengyi could finish his sentence, he felt the other party squeeze his butt.
Chu Tingyun grinned, “Feeling moved? Can I switch with you tonight?”
“……Sure, you can try.”
“Hmph—”
Chu Tingyun pouted.
That meant it wouldn’t happen.
The two of them played around in the room for a bit before Chengyi quickly went to the kitchen.
—He was still making soup.
In late summer, Chengyi stubbornly wore a high-neck short-sleeve shirt. Thankfully, the air conditioning was on at home, so it wasn’t too hot.
After Chu Tingyun finished washing up, he came out to find Chengyi. He hugged Chengyi from behind, reaching his hand into the boy’s shirt.
“Isn’t this high collar hot, Xunxun?”
“……Gege, I’m cooking.”
Chengyi pulled his hand out.
Chu Tingyun reached back in, “Why not take it off? Wouldn’t wearing an apron be cooler?”
“……”
While they were being sticky with each other, they suddenly heard the sound of a door opening from the living room.
At that moment, Zhou Ze had just finished showering, wearing a tank top and big shorts as he walked in directly.
To make it convenient for the kids to visit, Ye Cunshan specially replaced the door with a double-layer one; the outer layer was a security door, while the inner layer was just a small door that could be pushed open with a twist. During the day, when someone was home, the outer security door was usually left open.
So Zhou Ze naturally pushed the door open and walked in, planning to join for lunch.
“Ye Ge, what are we eating for lunch…”
Zhou Ze’s voice grew quieter, until it completely faded away.
He saw Chu Tingyun pressed against Ye Chengyi, with his hand reaching inside the boy’s shirt, the bulge of Chengyi’s chest clearly revealing the current action. In Zhou Ze’s mind, the usually aloof friend was now blushing, his lashes trembling low, appearing shy and reluctant yet inviting.
The three of them silently stared at each other, and the air seemed to freeze in that instant.
“………”
The entire world fell into silence.
Zhou Ze quickly backed out, closing the door.
He rubbed his eyes and took a deep breath. After a long moment of encouraging himself, he nervously opened the door again.
This time, what he saw was different—
Ye Chengyi had a cold expression, wearing an apron as he focused on cooking, while Chu Tingyun stood with his arms crossed at the kitchen door, lazily glancing at him.
Yes!
This was the normal way to open the door!
Zhou Ze breathed a sigh of relief and cheerfully greeted the two.
“Hey? Chengyi, when did Tingyun Ge come back?”
Chengyi pressed his lips together, planning to tell his friend directly. But just then, Chu Tingyun directly pulled his collar and kissed him on the lips.
With a “chu” sound.
Thinking that what he saw earlier was an illusion, Zhou Ze: “……”
() ….”
Zhou Ze fell silent, then broke down.
“You… you guys…….?”
Chengyi, with red ears, nodded: “Mm, it’s just as you saw, we’re dating.”
“……”
Zhou Ze closed his eyes.
“I finally understand, Ye Chengyi.”
“……What did you understand?”
“That twelve years ago, when you kicked me off the bed, you were feeling guilty, right?”
Chengyi: “…….”
You still remember something from that long ago?
However, in the end, Zhou Ze quickly accepted this shocking news. He didn’t leave and naturally squeezed into their world to join for lunch.
While Chengyi was finishing the last dish, Chu Tingyun was sitting at the table with Zhou Ze waiting.
Chu Tingyun asked Zhou Ze: “Aren’t you surprised?”
Zhou Ze nodded: “I was a bit at first, but now I think it makes a lot of sense.”
“Makes sense?”
“Yeah, Ye Chengyi has liked you since he was little, right? He was always hanging around your house. I have such a good relationship with him, but I couldn’t even touch his little Guanyin. Then that year, he just directly gave you away.”
Zhou Ze had sensed something back then.
“I just didn’t expect it to happen so quickly. Tingyun Ge, he just turned eighteen yesterday. You… tsk tsk tsk! This tender grass must taste good, right?”
Chu Tingyun wasn’t shy at all, just casually laughed.
“Tastes pretty good, just a bit hard.”
Zhou Ze didn’t catch on: “?”
At that moment, he was called by Chengyi to help serve the dishes.
As soon as he went in, his buddy pulled him aside and asked, “Zhou Ze, what did you say to him?”
“?”
Zhou Ze wore an expression of you’re doomed.
“No way, Ye Chengyi, you’re nervous now when I’m talking to him?”
Chengyi: “…… I was just asking.”
Zhou Ze rolled his eyes and deliberately said loudly, “I told him you’ve liked him since you were little, willingly getting caught by him over and over without breaking free!”
Ye Chengyi: “……..”
Chu Tingyun obviously heard that and laughed heartily.
Overall, the three of them had a very harmonious meal.
In the following two days, Zhou Ze directly returned to school; he really couldn’t stand the clingy couple.
Meanwhile, Chengyi moved directly to his boyfriend’s house.
So, for three days of vacation, Chu Tingyun stayed home.
When the vacation ended, Chengyi sent his boyfriend back to the team and placed getting his driver’s license and buying a car at the top of his plan. At the same time, he started to establish his own company. The following year, Chengyi successfully secured his first investment and met a very capable investor with whom he got along well—Gu Shanqing.
“Gu Shanqing?”
After hearing this name from Chengyi, Chu Tingyun specially asked Jiang Shenghai’s assistant to look it up.
“This person seems okay.”
Chengyi smiled as he replied via text: “Mm, pretty good. We can be friends. When you get back from your vacation, I’ll introduce you.”
In the early stages of the company, Chengyi also encountered several ill-intentioned people and stepped into quite a few pitfalls. However, with his father’s guidance and the experience advice from his sister Jing Shu, who was studying finance abroad while also managing the company, his entrepreneurial journey was relatively smooth.
However, the company’s main operations and development relied heavily on Ye Chengyi himself. Even so, he didn’t neglect his studies and almost became a legendary figure in his department.
So another year passed, and outside of school, very few people called Chengyi by his name anymore; some called him Mr. Ye, while many referred to him as President Ye.
And Chu Tingyun added another title for Chengyi—Little President Ye.
But at this time, he really didn’t have time to share his little boyfriend’s glorious achievements because the next Winter Olympics were approaching.
Chu Tingyun was busy training; he was now twenty-six years old, almost at the end of his professional career. Chengyi was very clear about how crucial this time was, so he didn’t disturb Chu Tingyun.
Now he had the ability to buy front-row tickets and take homemade cheering items to see that person.
At this year’s Winter Olympics, Chu Tingyun’s performance could almost be described as a self-immolation on the ice.
However, age, injuries, and the degradation of physical condition were unavoidable. In the end, he won a silver medal, marking the conclusion of his dream and professional career.
“—I’ve decided to retire.”
In front of cameras from around the world, Chu Tingyun calmly and gently announced this.
He didn’t seem regretful about not winning the championship; when he left, it didn’t feel like a departure but rather an eager embrace of a new starting point in life.
—And an eager embrace of that person he had longed for.
“Tingyun!”
That evening, Chengyi finally waited for him at the hotel. He no longer called Chu Tingyun “gege.”
As soon as Chu Tingyun entered, he was picked up by his little boyfriend and spun around several times.
“Wow, Little President Ye, you’ve gained some strength, huh?”
Chu Tingyun was already used to this. He clamped his legs around the youth’s waist, skillfully pulled the pen from the young man’s suit pocket, and signed it directly on Chengyi’s face.
“Here’s the champion’s autograph!”
No matter what place he finished in, he would always be a champion in Ye Chengyi’s eyes.
Chengyi looked up at him and asked, “Is it done?”
“Mm……”
Before Chu Tingyun could finish that “mm,” he was directly kissed back by the youth. Chengyi hugged him and pushed him against the wall, kissing deeply.
Chu Tingyun chuckled softly, grabbing the back of the other’s head and leaning down to kiss back. The long-lost intertwining of lips and tongues made their bodies weaken with desire.
“So eager, huh, Xunxun?”
“…… I miss you.”
Chengyi supported his boyfriend’s butt with one hand while wrapping the other around his waist, pinning him firmly against the wall.
In the large room, only their hurried breaths could be heard. The body temperature of both was rapidly rising, and at this moment, Chu Tingyun felt a little dazed from the kisses.
Just then, someone knocked on the door from outside.
Knock, knock, knock!
Chu Tingyun patted his little boyfriend’s shoulder, but the other wouldn’t let go.
Chengyi even intentionally moved Chu Tingyun from the wall to the door and kissed him fiercely for a while. He kept kissing until Chu Tingyun was muffled, “Mm, mm,” before he finally let go.
Outside, teammates knocked to tell Chu Tingyun to attend the team’s celebration dinner.
“Oh, okay.”
Chu Tingyun glanced back at Chengyi, his crescent-shaped smiling eyes like hooks.
“Then I’ll go?”
Little President Ye pursed his lips, and after a while, seemingly obedient and magnanimous, he replied with a reluctant “mm.”
As a result, as soon as Chu Tingyun lifted his foot to leave, he was grabbed by the hand from behind.
Chengyi softly called to him, “Gege, don’t go.”
“……”
Chu Tingyun silently curled the corners of his lips.
Bang—
At that moment, a hand suddenly pushed the already slightly open door shut.
Ye Chengyi tightly hugged the man from behind, his previously soft tone suddenly turning cold and stern.
“Don’t go!”
Chu Tingyun’s retirement night turned into a celebration for the two of them.
He even arrogantly took Little President Ye’s pen and wrote his name all over the young man’s body. The result was that by the end of the night, Chu Tingyun couldn’t even close his legs.
After it was over, Little President Ye gave Chu Tingyun a card.
The man lying in bed spoke in a hoarse voice, but his tone was as casual as usual: “What? Little President Ye wants to support me?”
Chengyi leaned over and gave him a kiss: “Remove the word ‘support’.”
Chu Tingyun smiled cheerfully: “Okay~”
He accepted it without hesitation, planning to enjoy it thoroughly when he returned home.
The two had been dating for two years, neither deliberately public nor secretly hidden. However, since they had been close since childhood, besides Zhou Ze and Jing Shu, others regarded them as very good older brother and younger brother.
—For example, Jiang Shenghai.
In fact, Jiang’s father was very pleased with Ye Chengyi. Initially, he only intended for Chu Tingyun to stay in that neighborhood for a while.
Unexpectedly, both kids loved living there, so he ended up staying long-term, only occasionally returning to Jiang Mansion.
Therefore, Ye Chengyi could be considered someone he had watched grow up.
Jiang Shenghai was a businessman and a very worldly person.
He assessed people based on their family background, education, abilities, character, and morals. Ye Chengyi excelled in all these aspects, and Jiang was satisfied, especially since Chengyi had succeeded in his business, making him feel even better about the kid.
Of course, this satisfaction was based on the assumption that Chu Tingyun and Chengyi were just ordinary brothers, and that Jing Shu could potentially develop something with Ye Chengyi.
But Jiang Shenghai never expected that as soon as Chu Tingyun got home, he would say—
“I’ve been dating Ye Chengyi for two years and plan to get married.”
Jiang Shenghai was stunned: “……”
That evening, Chu Tingyun and Chengyi sent the old man to the hospital.
Jiang Shenghai was absolutely against it!
He initially planned to use his health to threaten Chu Tingyun, but the son hired a nurse for him and then ignored him.
Meanwhile, his ex-wife was still posting photos of herself with their two kids online. Clearly, Irina had accepted the kids’ romantic relationships well.
Jiang Shenghai spent over half a month alone in the hospital, with only Jing Shu visiting him. The two had a fight for some unknown reason, and when Jing Shu returned, she took all of her father’s things back to Jiang Mansion.
In most father-child disputes, it’s the child who can’t take it and moves out. But for Jing Shu, it was different; she sent her old man away.
Since the house had been transferred to Jing Shu’s name after she became an adult, it was now solely her property.
After Jiang Shenghai was discharged, he had no choice but to move back home.
“Unfilial! Unfilial!!”
Chu Tingyun immediately turned it around: “This is your fault, Jiang Shenghai! Who told you to raise me as a man who can’t have kids?”
“……”
Jiang Shenghai was at a loss for words.
“Chu Tingyun! What kind of nonsense is that! You’re a man for life! Just because you two can’t have kids doesn’t mean you can’t get married!”
Chu Tingyun questioned him: “Then why must we have kids?”
“If there are no kids, who inherits the family business? Who takes care of you in your old age?”
“I’ll inherit it with Jing Shu.”
Chu Tingyun had already thought this through.
“If she has kids in the future, her children will inherit her share. If I have no kids, I’ll sell the company, hire someone to take care of me in my old age, spend all the money, and then die. If there’s anything left, I’ll donate it to the country.”
At this point, he scoffed at his father’s narrow-mindedness.
“Tsk, your head is full of personal interests. No wonder you can’t become a party member, Jiang Shenghai.”
Jiang Shenghai: “……..”
It was a jumbled yet flawless logic.
In any case, Jiang Shenghai firmly opposed it, but his opposition was ineffective.
A year later, at the wedding, he was seated at the main table, forced to give a substantial sum as a “bride price.”
Chu Tingyun said: “If you want to recognize me as your son, then when I get married, you have to pay—whether as a dowry or a bride price. Otherwise, you won’t have a son to take care of you in your old age.”
At that time, Jiang Shenghai went to the hospital for the second time.
This time, Chu Tingyun hired two nurses for him.
So in the end, he still paid up, attended the wedding, and stubbornly insisted that the money he gave was a “bride price”!
Thus, during the parents’ speech segment, he was absent, leaving only Ye Cunshan, Xie Fengjun, and Irina on stage, tearfully embracing the two kids.
Zhou Ze served as the witness and performed five shows.
Chengyi threw the bouquet, which was later snatched away by Jing Shu’s boyfriend.
That guy, despite wearing a prosthetic leg, was quite impressive and successfully grabbed the bouquet made of lily of the valley from the crowd.
Sister Jing Shu introduced him to Chengyi as Lin Ran.
When Chengyi met him, both were momentarily stunned.
In the end, Chengyi smiled and stepped forward to hug him.
“Long time no see, Lin Ran Ge.”
“……”
Lin Ran was genuinely surprised that the other still remembered him and was willing to recognize him.
“Mm, long time no see.”
—This was also the reason for the argument between Jing Shu and Jiang Shenghai.
Because Lin Ran came from a poor background, his parents were divorced, and he lived with his father, and although he was a well-known online writer, Jiang’s father was still not satisfied.
“But I like him.”
Sister Jing Shu smiled brightly while holding the bouquet.
“No matter what our future holds, he can’t change my decision.”
The first person was Lin Ran, and the second was her father.
On the first anniversary after Chengyi and Chu Tingyun got married, the two found a small kitten on the roadside.
It had a round face, tabby fur, four snowy white paws, and a white collar around its neck.
They adopted the little kitten.
Chengyi named it Baobao.
During the New Year, Chu Tingyun took the child home to show the old man, saying his grandson had arrived.
[The End]!
