Sleeping Together

At this point, the cameras in their room had not yet been covered up in a fit of madness, and CP fans flooded noisily into the livestream.

[I can vouch for President Lu—Shen Ranxin was totally going you just now!]

[Poor President Lu, toyed with in the palm of his hand.]

[How rare. The Irritating CP actually didn't cover the cameras today. What, do us CP fans finally get a seat at the table?]

[Keep it down. Don't remind him, or he'll cover them again in a minute.]

Lu Zhi packed a few clothes from his suitcase and went into the bathroom to shower.

Shen Ranxin walked over to the medical kit. Before Lu Zhi came out, he quickly opened it for a look and found the sedatives inside.

He had been in this world for quite some time now and had learned a little about commonplace medical supplies. What Lu Zhi had injected earlier really had not been an inhibitor.

The effects of this Alpha sedative were no weaker than those of an inhibitor, but it did more damage to the nervous system... because inhibitors suppressed the secretion of pheromones from the glands through medication.

Injecting a sedative, however, meant that an Alpha's urge to destroy had nothing to do with pheromones at that moment. It came from the heart.

Shen Ranxin's hand trembled, and he quickly tossed the sedative back into the medical kit.

He could vaguely guess why Lu Zhi had used a sedative rather than an inhibitor.

But he truly did not dare think too deeply about it, nor did he want to.

It was bad enough that, as a straight man, he had transmigrated into a world full of gays.

Even if he could not return to his original world, what he should do was follow the plot properly, collect the hundred-billion reward the system had promised him, then run off somewhere no one knew him and live his happy life.

Lu Zhi's shower took rather a long time. More than two hours later, he finally emerged from the bathroom, still carrying a mist of moisture around him.

Shen Ranxin checked the time and prepared to go to bed.

Then he discovered that someone had poured a huge amount of water over his sheets. The blanket had concealed it earlier, but once he pulled it back, water dripped down in a steady trickle. It was absolutely impossible to sleep there anymore.

Shen Ranxin: "..."

With a cold expression, he instinctively turned to look at Lu Zhi. "Do you think this is funny?"

The red at Lu Zhi's ears had not faded yet, but he was no longer as tense as before and could meet Shen Ranxin's gaze directly.

He froze for a moment, then asked innocently, "What?"

Shen Ranxin threw the soaked blanket in front of Lu Zhi. "Lu Zhi, are you sick? What's the meaning of soaking my sheets and bedding? Are you trying to use this chance to make me sleep with you?"

Lu Zhi's expression shifted from bewilderment to surprise, and finally revealed a hint of secret delight.

He tilted his head. His silver hair gleamed brilliantly beneath the lights, making his glasslike eyes shine as well.

"It wasn't me." Lu Zhi picked up the blanket and stood, then walked to Shen Ranxin's side and bent closer. "Why would you think it was me?"

They were far too close, nearly close enough for their breaths to mingle. Shen Ranxin's mind went hot, and he instinctively shoved him. "If not you, then who else? Your mind is full of nothing but this all day long, you shameless bastard..."

Lu Zhi was shoved straight onto the bed, but he could not suppress a soft laugh. Even his shoulders shook continuously.

Shen Ranxin became even more convinced that this bastard had done it. "You still have the nerve to laugh?! And you say you didn't do it!"

With that, he stormed into the bathroom, carried out a basin of water, and unhesitatingly splashed it onto Lu Zhi's bed!

Shen Ranxin tossed aside the basin and clapped his hands. "You think this will make me sleep in your bed? If I can't sleep, then neither can you!"

Lu Zhi wiped away the tears he had laughed out from the corners of his eyes, then tapped the wall with his long fingers. "Mm, you make a lot of sense. But whether I spilled that water or not, there's a camera here, and the entire thing was uploaded to the livestream. You can check the replay and clear my name."

Shen Ranxin glanced at the camera the production crew had installed in the corner, then opened the computer skeptically and found his livestream replay.

Then he saw a man in a baseball cap and black face mask suddenly push open the door to the previously empty room and splash water over his sheets.

He could not see the man's face clearly, but judging by his build, it definitely could not have been Lu Zhi.

With Lu Zhi's nearly six-foot-three height, there was no way he could pull off such a sneaky-looking posture.

"Well? Did you see it?" Lu Zhi stood behind him, bent down, and braced an arm beside him, almost loosely enclosing Shen Ranxin in his embrace. "Was it me?"

Shen Ranxin was so embarrassed that he could not say a word. His toes practically dug a three-bedroom apartment into the floor.

"You..." Shen Ranxin began weakly. "If it wasn't you, then why were you laughing?"

Lu Zhi answered lightly, "I thought of a joke."

Shen Ranxin: "...You'd better have."

"Then how is Teacher Shen going to compensate me for wronging me like that and soaking my sheets?" Lu Zhi lowered his head. "As such an innocent and pitiful victim, Teacher Shen wouldn't make me sleep on the streets, would he?"

Shen Ranxin: "..."

Shen Ranxin was not stupid. At this point, how could he fail to realize that person had probably been sent by the production crew?

Their goal was to reclaim the points in his possession!

Damn it, those crafty old foxes!

He pushed Lu Zhi away. "Isn't it just a bedding set? I'll go downstairs and buy you one."

The convenience supermarket beside the small villa was open twenty-four hours a day, making it easy for the guests to spend points there whenever they wanted.

Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi decided to go out and buy two bedding sets, but when they arrived at the convenience supermarket, they discovered that the points they had only sufficed for one set.

Since neither he nor Lu Zhi had participated in the afternoon activity, they had not received the enormous sum of one hundred and fifty points. On top of that, dinner had cost fifty points, leaving Shen Ranxin with only ten points.

As for Lu Zhi, he spent money recklessly and kept showering Shen Ranxin with points, leaving himself so poor that he had to split a fart in two to make it last. He even owed the production crew one hundred points.

Shen Ranxin: "..."

In the end, the two could only buy one set of bedding and head upstairs.

Forced to share a bed with Lu Zhi, Shen Ranxin covered the camera with a sour expression.

[Please, can you not cover the camera? I really want to watch! I just got paid two days ago—open the camera for me!]

[I swear, when Shen Ranxin soaked President Lu's bed, President Lu was definitely laughing because of this. He already knew they didn't have enough points to replace both sets, so he could sleep in the same bed as his wife fair and square! And his wife delivered himself right to him!]

[President Lu must be over the moon.]

[Did you notice? President Lu wasn't angry at all when he was falsely accused of spilling the water.]

[Did the commenter above not start from the beginning? With President Lu's love-struck brain, forget being wrongly accused by his wife—even if his wife beat him to death, he wouldn't have a single complaint!]

[But I think it's because Shen Ranxin instinctively assumed that President Lu soaked his bed because he wanted to sleep with him. Think back to Shen Ranxin's straight-guy logic at the start. The fact that he could think that means President Lu's peacock display these past few days really worked! Shen Ranxin has subconsciously started believing that two Alphas can sleep together!]

[Girl, that analysis was way too precise. Are you preparing for grad school or something?]

Shen Ranxin gestured down the middle of the bed. "Don't touch me, got it?"

Lu Zhi raised his brows, his tone cheerful. "Mm♂"