In the steam-filled bathroom, faint panting leaked through the crack beneath the door.
Good thing this wasn't a livestream, or the fans would have been blushing furiously with nosebleeds pouring down their faces.
A fair, delicate arm tried to push open the bathroom door, only to be pulled back inside the next second.
"Brother Ye, can you spare me? I still have to clean house tomorrow!" Xie Chen's voice trembled as he was cornered with nowhere to hide.
"Spare you?" Huo Wenye raised an eyebrow. "Didn't you say you wanted to compensate me?"
"I've held back for so long. Don't you feel bad for me?"
"I... feel bad my ass!" Xie Chen was on the verge of tears. "Can you feel bad for me instead?! My legs can barely hold me up!"
"Fine." Huo Wenye pressed his lips into a smile and picked him up. "I'll take good care of you."
Xie Chen: "..."
Fuck, before getting his memories back,
he'd actually forgotten that this guy had absurd stamina!
Finally able to lie down on the bed, Xie Chen started having trouble breathing again.
Mainly because Huo Wenye had wrapped him up with both arms and legs,
and buried his head in the crook of his neck, as though afraid Xie Chen would vanish.
"Can you let go? I only got my memories back. I didn't ascend to immortality and disappear the next second!" Xie Chen said helplessly.
Huo Wenye said, "You don't understand what it means to regain something you've lost."
He never wanted to experience that despair, worse than death, again!
"I..." Xie Chen hesitated.
He actually wanted to ask what Huo Wenye had gone through after he jumped from the building and fell into a coma in his previous life,
but he was afraid of exposing