You Little Punk

The corner of Xie Li's mouth twitched. He turned to Shen Yan with a smile. "Can you help me open this water now?"

Without another word, Shen Yan took the bottle and twisted it open with a crack.

Bai Jing looked shocked. "I thought you were going to make him say, 'Brother Shen Yan, you're the best.'"

Shen Yan handed the water to Xie Li and smiled at Bai Jing. "Because that really isn't my task."

"Then what is your task?" Bai Jing got up and pressed him at once.

Shen Yan backed away repeatedly. "Not telling you."

Bai Jing kept advancing after him. "No, tell me."

"Nope!"

"Tell me!"

"I won't!"

[Oh no, I think these two are kind of sweet too.]

[These two can probably only be besties, though. Shen Yan publicly announced his sexual orientation a long time ago.]

[But they're kind of fun to ship—two silly, adorable babies.]

He retreated.

She pursued.

In the blink of an eye, the two of them had moved three meters away from Xie Li.

Xie Li sat on the ground drinking water, but it felt like it was getting stuck in his teeth.

Why couldn't he fit in?!

It had to be because Shen Yan was doing it on purpose—deliberately attracting Bai Jing so she would quietly drift away from him.

How despicable!

He absolutely couldn't let Shen Yan succeed.

Holding the water bottle, Xie Li stood up with a smile and joined Bai Jing in chasing Shen Yan. "Thanks for opening my water just now, Shen Yan. Brother Shen Yan, you're so nice!"

Shen Yan planted his hands on his hips and burst into three loud laughs.

"Two out of six tasks completed! Goodbye, then!"

Since those two guests were no longer within his target range, Shen Yan turned and left.

Bang!

He crashed headfirst into the person behind him.

Pei Heng caught Shen Yan, who had bounced backward from the impact. Looking down at him with lowered eyes and a faint smile at the corner of his mouth, he asked, "Did that hurt?"

[Pei Heng came over after clearing the table. He was deliberately standing here waiting for Shen Yan to crash into him. Oh my god!]

[Fine, these two are still the best to ship!]

[The Pei-Shen pairing is the best!]

Shen Yan's nose had slammed directly into Pei Heng's shoulder. It felt like he had nearly broken it.

Covering his nose, he looked up at Pei Heng, tears of pain glimmering in his eyes. "What kind of question is that? Of course it hurt."

Pei Heng nodded and took a small step back.

Then—

Thud.

He lay flat on the ground.

"Your nose stabbed my shoulder and ruined it. I feel like I'm about to die. I need a sincere kiss to come back to life."

[???]

[President Pei, are you sick in the head or not?]

[Hahahaha, what a stiff and awkward scam.]

[Kiss him! Kiss him for me! Kiss him until his legs go weak, kiss him until his other leg gets hard, kiss him until he flips you over right there and you two go at it!]

[Sis, calm down.]

Shen Yan looked at Pei Heng, who was shamelessly faking an injury on the ground, and revealed a crafty smile. "Could your hidden task be to get a guest to kiss you?"

Behind them, Xie Li's eyes instantly lit up.

Lying on the ground and clutching his shoulder, Pei Heng said, "You rammed my shoulder black and blue, and you're still talking about hidden tasks? Come give me a sincere kiss already, or I'm not getting up."

Shen Yan immediately took a considerate step back, turned, and walked away. "Then stay there. Lie down a little longer."

Seeing Shen Yan turn to leave, Xie Li was so happy he nearly jumped up.

He struggled to hold it in, forcing a worried expression onto his face as he hurried over to help Pei Heng up. "President Pei, are you all right? I'll help you up first..."

Whoosh.

Before Xie Li could even reach out—

Pei Heng had already sprung to his feet like lightning.

Not only was he up, but he had already caught up to Shen Yan.

"You damaged me and you're just leaving like that? You're such a heartless man!" Pei Heng complained bitterly.

Shen Yan shot him a sidelong glance. "Aren't you perfectly lively?"

Pei Heng said, "My shoulder's bruised all over from that hit. Look if you don't believe me."

He kept emphasizing that sentence.

It really did stir up a little of Shen Yan's curiosity. "Could it be that your hidden task isn't to make me kiss you, but to make me look at your shoulder?"

Pei Heng gave a half-smile. "Anyway, you bruised my shoulder all over. You can't just ignore it, can you?"

As he spoke—

Pei Heng pulled out a stack of cash from his pocket.

"Give me a sincere kiss, and these ten thousand yuan are yours."

Shen Yan: You should've said so earlier!

"Do you think I give a damn about your ten thousand yuan?"

He snatched the ten thousand yuan away.

Then he rose onto his toes and kissed Pei Heng's cheek.

A kiss was just a kiss. It wasn't like he was losing out—Pei Heng was handsome, and he was paying him!

"I'm after your body."

After kissing him, Shen Yan turned away, rolled up the ten thousand yuan, and stuffed it into his pocket.

Pei Heng looked down at him with a smile. Once Shen Yan had put the money away, Pei Heng said, "Can you look at my bruise now? I really didn't lie to you. You really injured me."

No sooner said than done.

As if afraid Shen Yan would refuse to look—

Pei Heng yanked down the collar over his shoulder.

Exposing a large, badly bruised patch of shoulder.

[Damn, it's really bruised.]

[Was Shen Yan's nose really that powerful?]

[For a moment, I don't even know what to say!]

[I absolutely did not see this coming.]

Shen Yan stared at the large bruise exposed on Pei Heng's shoulder and fell into confusion as well.

He even guiltily touched the nose made of nothing but bone and flesh on his face, two invisible question marks seeming to pop up over his head.

Pei Heng smiled. "See? I wasn't lying. It really is bruised. Can you help me put on some ointment? It really hurts."

Shen Yan.

Even so.

He hesitated coyly for a moment. "I can, but you have to promise me one thing."

Pei Heng raised a brow.

Shen Yan said, "You have to secretly tell Bai Jing what your hidden task is."

Bai Jing, who had been standing nearby watching the drama and had even forgotten about her own task, immediately brightened.

Could something this good really keep happening?

Whoosh!

She darted forward.

Standing straight and respectfully, she held her ear up beside Pei Heng.

To make it easier for Pei Heng to whisper to her, she even thoughtfully stood on tiptoe to reduce the height difference.

Pei Heng gave Shen Yan a meaningful look. "You're quite the nice guy, helping Bai Jing like this?"

Shen Yan hesitated coyly again. "Sister Bai Jing gave me the last slice of lamb from the pot just now. No one has ever cared about me like that."

First Aunt, Second Aunt, Third Aunt, Fourth Aunt, Fifth Aunt, Sixth Aunt, Seventh Aunt, Eighth Aunt, and Ninth Aunt, who were watching the livestream: ...

Forget it. This son wasn't worth keeping.

Click.

They turned off the livestream.

Bai Jing looked at Shen Yan a little awkwardly.

So that was why.

But she had only given him that slice of lamb because she had tried to pick it up and failed, causing it to fall onto the table. She thought it was a little dirty to eat, but a shame to throw away, so she gave it to Shen Yan.

Mm!

She never expected Shen Yan to be so touched.

From now on, she would definitely give Shen Yan even more lamb!

Quietly making up her mind, Bai Jing raised herself even higher on tiptoe. "President Pei, are you going to tell me? I can barely hold on anymore."

Pei Heng looked at Shen Yan, paused for a moment, then told Bai Jing what his hidden task was.

Bai Jing's eyes sparkled.

She couldn't help shouting, "You little punk!"

[What is Pei Heng's hidden task? How could it make Bai Jing look like that?!]

[Bai Jing's expression right now is like mine when I see something spicy.]

[I feel like Bai Jing is about to drool.]