Supporting You Is No Problem

[v:[pat pat][pat pat]]

[v:What's wrong, baby?]

[Little Si Invincible:I got licked on the mouth by a dog!]

The chat went quiet for a few seconds.

Then a jpg of a little rabbit pinching its chin in thought popped up.

[v:Was the dog vaccinated?]

[Little Si Invincible:...]

[Little Si Invincible:Damn, you seriously don't care at all!]

[Little Si Invincible:I'm mad!]

He said he was mad, but he was actually grinning like an auntie.

Si Di lay sprawled on the bed, his feet raised and crossed behind him.

His bright doe eyes were filled with deep amusement.

His phone buzzed.

WeChat had received a new message.

[v:It was just a puppy licking you. Brush your teeth and rinse your mouth, and it'll be fine. As long as it wasn't someone else kissing you.]

At the sight of the word "kissing," Si Di's mind buzzed.

The warm sensation from last night suddenly resurfaced.

Si Di's fingers hovered an inch above the screen. After thinking for a moment, he cautiously asked:

[Little Si Invincible:What if someone really did kiss me?]

[v:That depends.]

[Little Si Invincible:What do you mean?]

[v:If you did it on purpose, or went along with it while pretending to resist, then we break up. But if it happened by accident because of outside circumstances and had nothing to do with feelings, then—]

Damn!

He really knew how to keep someone in suspense!

Si Di's heart hung halfway in his throat as his fingers quickly tapped the screen.

[Little Si Invincible:Then what?]

A polite smiling yellow face popped up on the screen.

[v:You handle it the same way you would if a puppy licked you: brush your teeth and rinse your mouth.]

[v:Brush twice. Rinse twice.]

[v:We can't break up over something this trivial, can we?]

Whew.

Si Di let out a breath of relief.

This kind of thing could be serious, but it could also be not so serious.

If he ran into someone petty, they would probably make a huge fuss over it.

Luckily, V was understanding.

With those words from him, the gloom in Si Di's heart vanished completely.

Just as he was about to tap the screen and type, a head suddenly poked over from the bedrail beside him.

Yu Ning wore an expression like he had discovered some earth-shattering secret.

He stretched out a finger and pointed at Si Di's phone.

"Who's that? Si Di, you're actually dating someone! An idol dating during the rise of his career is no different from courting death. You're destroying your own future!"

His voice was low.

But his momentum was impressive.

Si Di jumped in fright.

He covered his phone screen and blinked.

He laughed it off. "What dating? You saw it wrong."

Yu Ning's eyes widened. "Si Di! You actually didn't tell me! I saw it, and you're still hiding it from me! I treat you like my closest friend. I even went with you on that midnight mission to steal your phone, yet you didn't tell me you were dating someone! That hurts, it really hurts. My heart has already been sliced into lotus root chips."

Yu Ning clutched his chest, fully committed to looking wounded.

Si Di looked at him, bit his lip, and lit up his phone screen again.

"It's not that I didn't want to tell you. I just felt the timing wasn't right yet. Here, look."

Yu Ning was not in the habit of prying into other people's privacy.

It was one thing that he had accidentally seen the little red heart in Si Di's contact name, but even between good friends, he should not read someone else's chat history.

Suppressing his curiosity, Yu Ning pushed Si Di's hand away and leaned close to whisper, "Who's your boyfriend? Is he in our circle?"

"No."

Si Di blurted it out, hesitated for two seconds, then changed his answer. "Probably not. I don't know either. V and I are only dating online. We haven't met in real life yet."

The moment he said that, Yu Ning's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

"Online dating? Si Di, are you serious? You're twenty-one, not eleven. Even elementary school kids don't play those online romance games anymore, yet you fell for it?"

He knew he would be laughed at.

Si Di nodded fearlessly. "There's nothing shameful about online dating. There's nothing wrong with falling for someone."

Well, damn.

Si Di seemed like the kind of person who never felt guilty.

No matter how awkward something was, he could always make it sound completely justified.

Yu Ning was left stammering. After a long while, he finally asked, "Then do you know his name? How old is he? Is he older or younger than you? Where's he from? And what about his job? What does he do?"

Si Di picked the only thing he knew to answer. "He lives in the same city as us. I met him in a game. You know the nearby players list, right? I remember we were only two kilometers apart back then."

Yu Ning asked again, "What about everything else?"

This time, Si Di said nothing.

Yu Ning stared at him in shock. "Don't tell me that other than him living nearby, you know absolutely nothing? What if he's some seventy- or eighty-year-old grandpa?"

Si Di curled his lip. "A big age gap would mean a generation gap. I can tell from talking to him that he's about the same age as us."

"What about his job? What if he's some unemployed bum living off his parents?"

Yu Ning kept pressing him.

Si Di sighed.

He wanted to ask too, but he was afraid V would ask about his job as well.

Being an entertainer was far too special.

With so many uncertainties, he really could not lay everything bare.

Yu Ning looked like a parent who had caught his child dating online. With a strong air of guidance and supervision, he said forcefully:

"You dare date someone when you know nothing about him? Ask him. Ask him what he does for work right now."

—Darling, what do you do for work?

He typed the line into the chat box.

Si Di could not help glancing at the conversation above.

They had just been talking about getting licked by a dog. Suddenly asking that would be way too abrupt.

Si Di deleted the words he had typed.

After thinking it over, he asked as a transition:

[Little Si Invincible:Darling, have you been really busy lately too?]

[v:Yeah.]

[v:There are a lot of projects that need to be pushed forward. I really have been busy.]

[Little Si Invincible:You're so busy... you're not some executive at a company, are you?]

"Tch, how do you know he's an executive? Maybe he tightens screws at an electronics factory!"

Yu Ning held back a laugh. "Assembly line work is even busier!"

Si Di did not answer. His eyes stayed fixed intently on his phone screen.

Two minutes later, his phone buzzed.

A line of text popped up in the chat box.

[v:No. More accurately, I develop projects myself.]

[Little Si Invincible:Wow! So you started your own company and became your own boss?]

[Little Si Invincible:That sounds kind of impressive!]

[v:It's all right. Supporting myself isn't a problem.]

[Little Si Invincible:What about supporting me?]

[v:Supporting you is no problem either. [pat pat][pat pat]]

Si Di was delighted.

He bit his lower lip, looking completely satisfied.

But the very next second, the other person sent another message.

[v:What about you? What do you do for work, baby?]